Surprises me too. On reflection though, I shouldn’t be surprised. Cesare Borgia was a piece of work. If I were he, I probably have done the same, and had a few statues done of Jesus in my image. Can’t claim that of the Pieta because it was made decades after Cesare’s death.
Perhaps the most famous statue of Jesus is Michelangelo’s Pieta in St Peters. (1498-1499) Most depictions of Jesus after that time looked suspiciously like that very .Given the prejudices of the time, they couldn’t very well have Jesus looking Jewish or even foreign
The Pieta; The face of Jesus.
Pieta full view
The image below is widely accepted as being a reasonably accurrate idea of what Jesus would probably have looked like.
