Friday, September 14, 2018

Life of Cleopatra


Cleopatra Dressed as Pharaoh Presenting Offerings to Goddess Isis (on Limestone Stele, 51 BC)


“Painted image from a villa at Herculaneum portraying a red-haired woman whose facial features, royal diadem and hairstyle adorned with fine pearl-studded hairpins suggest a posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII” (1st Century AD)
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Statue of Cleopatra (unknown source and date)
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Pietro de Cortone - Caesar Giving Cleopatra the Throne of Egypt (1637)
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Guercino - Cleopatra and Octavian (ca. 1640)
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Jacob Jordaens - The Banket of Cleopatra (1653)
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Elisabetta Sirani  (1664)
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Jan de Bray - The Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra (1669)
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Jan Steen (1675)
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Gerard Hoet (1648-1733)
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1744)
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Pompeo Batoni - Cleopatra showing Octavius the Bust of Julius Caesar (1708-1787)
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Louis Gauffier - Cleopatra and Octavian (1787)
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Thomas Stothard - Intemperance: Cleopatra and Mark Anthony (ca. 1802)
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Eugène Delacroix - Cleopatra and the Peasant (1838)
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William Wetmore (1858)
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Heinrich von Angeli (1863)
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Henri Blaise Francois Dejussieu (1863)
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Jean-Léon Gérôme - Cleopatra before Caesar (1866)
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Hans Makart - Hunt on the River Nile
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra (1885)
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Alexandre Cabanel - Testing Poison on Condemned Prisoners (1887)
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Wilhelm Kotarbinsky (ca. 1890)
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Mose Bianchi (ca. 1890)
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman - Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae (1896)
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Edvard Munch - Cleopatra and the Slave (1920)
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Salvador Dali - Anthony and Cleopatra (1968)
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Robert Brokl (1999)
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Albert Pujolar (2000s)
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Celeste McCollough (2000s)
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Gopal Seyn (2000s)
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Jack Withagen (2000s)
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Jeffrey Ackerman (2000s)
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Maria Vinuesa (2000s)
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Dennie Boxem (2011)
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Fred de Heij (2012)
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Peter Adams (2010s)
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Sierk van Meeuwen (2019)
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'Last Queen of the Ptolomaic Kingdom of Egypt'
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