LUCREZIA BORGIA: Was She Really That Beautiful?- In Real Life- Mortal Faces

In this video I show How Lucrezia Borgia Looked in Real Life. Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519) was born into the famous Borgia family near Rome. Her father was the infamous Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, later Pope Alexander XI. The family was famous for being steeped in sin and immorality, which may at the time have been normal for such high ranking individuals? Lucrezia was suspected of being part of her family's political castrations; using a poison ring to remove enemies. She was married three times and some claim she was a pawn used by her family while others say she was just as vengeful as her brother Cesare and father.

In this video I take her portraits and transform them using my technology and photoshop skills to see how she might have looked in real life. Of course all of this is just my artistic interpretation.

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[InnateNobility]

Lucrezia truly was beautiful, but the paintings of the time sometimes make people find it difficult to see the appeal until realism is applied. Many paintings of bygone ages reflect beauty ideals of the time that, sometimes, fabricate or exaggerate certain features and a bit of personal charm can be lost as a result. It doesn't surprise me that Lucrezia is very beautiful, the reports of dignitaries and the way she cleared a room upon entering it were profound in detail.

[elisaviviani]

Lucrezia was a good mother and really devoted to God in last decade of her life. She was very loved by Alfonso d'Este, her last husband and she found finally some peace, away from her father and her brother Cesare, that had in mind just prestigious power and money. She was very loved also by the people of Ferrara and you can find now her grave here in convent and Corpus Domini. She was buried with her last dead child, Isabella. As Ferrara is my bornplace, I'm very proud of her as the woman she was in an age of men.

[Borderose]

She was no pawn. She was a Borgia. She deserves better than to be seen as a witless victim. She wasn't the villainess so many claim her to be, but she was a definite and active part of the Borgia legend. Lucrezia had a knack for charming and befriending everyone who met her. A talent for reading the room and the flexibility to adapt to new roles as needed. She was the good wife and the stern ruler when called to be what she needs to be.

Her family was a big part of her life story. But they weren't just domineering villains, we see from their contemporaries and their letters to each other that her father the Pope and her brother the Duke Valentino loved her dearly. And she loved them back. Pawn implies that she obeyed them out of fear and a sense of authority when it could very well be that she did their bidding out of genuine love for them.

She was _especially_ intimate with Cesare. As apparently he was one of the few people in the world who could cheer her up and make her laugh when things got bad for her. Though remembered as a murderous fox, Cesare comes across as uncharacteristically tender in all their known interactions. Lucrezia on her part, doted after her older brother like a worried mother--and was inconsolable when he finally died in battle.

[bluesisyphe]

As someone named Lucrezia, you nailed the pronunciation. It's the first time I hear a foreigner say my name correctly lol

[ladyv]

Her hair appears darker in some paintings but that was because the pigmentation in the paint used tended to get darker over time. She was, allegedly, very blonde.

[anaesthetic]

She was indeed beautiful, but her life was sad. She was forced to abandon two of her children for her family ambitions.

[tavonc]

Fun Fact: Her face and likeness are till this day used by the Catholic Church as the virgin Mary. And her brother was used as the New Christ for the church.

[theleninist]

The Borgia were not really any more corrupt, ruthless or brutal than any other powerful families of the Italian renaissance, if you were not you would not stay alive for very long, Italian propaganda condemned them because they were Spanish and not Italian .

[desertdragonworksaz]

I just love watching what you do with these. Love the smiling ones, too! Regarding your statement that she may have dyed her hair: Of course, that's possible - but I have also heard that, sometimes, the pigments used by artists back in those centuries would turn darker over the ages, making the subject look like they had dark hair when the original painting showed their true hair color. I'd love to go back in time and see what all of these characters actually DID look like, especially the Tudors!

[Dhruv_Dogra]

Undoubtedly she had intelligence, personality, education and a close-knit rich family. Even an average face was enough in her times to turn heads and secure a formidable reputation; imagine the clothes, jewellery, and self-confidence of being an aristocrat in those times. I am sure she went from strength to strength with time.

[kimberlypatton]

The debate over her "beauty" may never be solved...however there are certain facts to consider...her family's wealth provided her with a higher quality of food, water, leisure and standard of living, the ability to purchase elaborate and opulent clothing and adornments, she had means to live a life that did not require any strenuous physical stresses(except maybe childbirth) and access to servants adept at hairstyling and cosmetic applications and personal hygiene standards ..Money can buy a whole realm of beauty enhancements, whatever century yo live in.

[imqxla]

She was definitely beautiful but like someone said before, her life was sad. This was such a good video and very interesting!

[ylenagreen]

Would recommend reading her letters, many are available on the internet and it gives a really great insight into her personality, she seems very sweet to the people she loved but also very strong and really quite scary

[chatita]

She seems beautiful and haughty ... but on the inside she was also dark and cruel. 🤔Thank you for this brilliant work! So much fun to watch. 👍🤗♥️🇩🇪

[jamesjacocks]

In re. Lucrezia's alleged beauty: let's not forget that standards of beauty have changed over these many centuries. There is no need for an argument that Renaissance painting was not capable of realism. Instead, research what was presented as beautiful only a century or two ago: the models have obviously changed. It is more useful to meet the standards of your own time than to be elevated to the standards of future times by spurious argument. Let's also remember that people seem to acquire greater beauty as they acquire more power.

[sharonfauber]

Your voice is very soothing. Thank you for these portraits

[OWOT-rejf]

She was so beautiful. Good narrative voice and effects. Good

[tarajperson]

A very slytherin type family...LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣

[susangavaghan]

Lucrezia was incredibly beautiful. l watched the series The Borgias. It was brilliant.

[irishgrl]

I LOVED the Canal+ series Borgia! Cesare was so dashing (as played by Mark Ryder). Totally engrossing story. In an age of schemers (Medici etc) they out-schemed the best of them!