King James's lover looked remarkably like what other well known image?

He looks sort of like actor Christian Bale to me.
:)

This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 23, 2018 7:40 AM MDT

King JAMES' lover 

Johnny Depp

This is a mildly interesting subject, but I never found anything about a lover. What are you talking about?

I'm not sure who else she looks like.

Which King James?  There are only two that could have been his lover and if it was James III of Scotland it would have been a little pervy.

Cesare Borgia: 13 September 1475 - 12 March 1507

King James III of Scotland: 10 July 1451 - 11 June 1488

King James IV of Scotland: 17 March 1473 - 9 September 1513 This post was edited by Livvie at April 23, 2018 8:24 AM MDT

The painting style reminded me of the Mona Lisa---not the subject of the painting of course.



I think you are talking about the myth that Jesus' physical characteristics come from Cesare Borgia (illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI) but I can find nothing saying he was the lover of King James.

But the modern renderings of Jesus cannot be attributed to Cesare Borgia because the year this was painted (1490) is not far enough back into history.  There are many paintings centuries before this one that have a white man with brown beard, long wavy hair.


Giotto di Bondone’s well-known 1305 mural The Lamentation of Christ features a white man with long brown hair, and Sandro Botticelli’s 1487 Madonna of the Pomegranate depicts a similarly featured infant Christ. Hieronymus Bosch’s Ecce Homo also antedates 1490 but demonstrates a recognizably familiar Jesus, as does Duccio di Buoninsegna’s early 1300’s Christ’s Farewell to his Apostles (and other works) and Bondone’s contemporaneous Last Supper (a very commonly depicted scene across time).

The similarities in Jesus’ image extend to other regions and movements, with Flemish Renaissance depictions antedating 1490 but still fitting the common pattern. A long haired, pale-skinned Jesus was observed in artworks from 1250 and centuries prior. Clearly, 1490 was in no way the year, or even the millennium, in which the most common characteristics of Jesus’ depiction in art were solidified. Moreover, limitations in the transmission of ideas and trends in that era was such that;the establishment of a “new Jesus” would have taken years to propagate across countries and cultures in Europe.