Ever heard the rumor that Pope Alexander VI's illegitimate son Cesare Borgia was...

I have heard the rumor. What is the value of a rumor?

Ultimately, every artist depicts Jesus as God inspires her or him.

The purpose of religious art is not to change belief.

The purpose of religious art is to inspire faith, hope, and love.

God therefore called man into existence, committing to him the craftsman's task. Through his “artistic creativity” man appears more than ever “in the image of God”, and he accomplishes this task above all in shaping the wondrous “material” of his own humanity and then exercising creative dominion over the universe which surrounds him.
- From Pope John Paul II's 1999 Letter to Artists: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists_en.html

Here is Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), Chapter VII - Sacred Art and Sacred Furnishings: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19631204_sacrosanctum-concilium_en.html

With love in Christ.
 
I've heard that but this immage from Hagia sofia
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/hagia-sophia-photos/imperial-entrance-mosaic-c-osseman.jpg.html might blow a couple holes
holes first Hagia sofia is in Cosntantiople so it fell to the Turks about 23 years before
Cesare Borgia was born and it was an Orthodox Cathedral so Rome was unimportant to any frescos.
 
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