Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter [SEP] creator
Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter
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
Description.
Saint Peter is enthroned at left, holding a book and with his gold and silver keys on the dais below him, which is appropriately made of "petra", stone. Pope Alexander VI, the pope at the time of the battle, presents the kneeling Jacopo Pesaro to him. Pesaro carries a standard with Alexander's coat of arms. Below the saint classical-style sculpted reliefs are shown at two levels. As in the similar reliefs in the later "Sacred and Profane Love", their