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Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter is an oil painting on canvas by Titian, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp.
It was commissioned by Bishop Jacopo Pesaro (b. 1460) as an ex-voto for the Venetian naval victory leading to the retaking of Santa Maura (Lefkada) from the Ottoman Turks in August 1502, a rare victory in the Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503), which concluded the next year with Venetian concessions, including the return of Santa Maura. Pesaro, a member of the patrician Pesaro family, was appointed by the Borgia Pope Alexander VI as a papal legate, commander of the Papal fleet in the region, and bishop of Paphos on Cyprus, a Greek island which was then a Venetian territory.It has sometimes been thought to be Titian's earliest painting, dating to as early as 1503, but this is now not believed, and a date nearer 1510–11 seems more likely.
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Paphos Antwerp Pope Alexander VI Papal fleet Titian Jacopo Pesaro Cyprus papal legate ex-voto Lefkada Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503) Saint Peter Borgia