This is a portrait of Cesare Borgia. Cesare was the son of Pope Alexander VI and the commander in chief of the papal army. From 1502 to 1503, Leonardo was a patron of Borgia during which da Vinci sketched his ideas for the machine gun.
“Cesare Borgia.” Wikipedia Commons, 8 May 2014, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cesareborgia.jpg.
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