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Pages in category "Paintings of Cleopatra" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... This page was last edited on 2 May 2024, ...
Cleopatra VII wearing a diadem and 'melon' hairstyle similar to coinage portraits, marble, found near the Tomba di Nerone, Rome along the Via Cassia, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums Cleopatra as a Goddess; 1st century BC An ancient Roman wall painting in Room 71 of the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii, Italy, showing Venus with a cupid's arms wrapped around her.
Cleopatra and Caesar (French: Cléopâtre et César), also known as Cleopatra Before Caesar, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Academic artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, completed in 1866. The work was originally commissioned by the French courtesan La Païva , but she was unhappy with the finished painting and returned it to Gérôme.
In this category are the topics related to cultural depiction of Cleopatra VII Philopator (Late 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC), known to history as Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. Subcategories
The Triumph of Cleopatra, 1821, 106.5 by 132.5 cm (41.9 by 52.2 in) The Triumph of Cleopatra, also known as Cleopatra's Arrival in Cilicia [1] and The Arrival of Cleopatra in Cilicia, [2] is an oil painting by English artist William Etty. It was first exhibited in 1821, and is now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Merseyside.
Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, [32] [33] [note 13] presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra V Tryphaena (who may have been the same person as Cleopatra VI Tryphaena), [34] [35] [36] [note 14] [note 2] the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia.
The Banquet of Cleopatra is a painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo completed in 1744. [1] It is now in the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. [2] [3]The subject of the painting is a supposed historical banquet, hosted by Cleopatra for Marc Antony, and described by both Pliny's Natural History (9.58.119–121) and Plutarch's Lives (Antony 25.36.1).
The Banquet of Cleopatra is the title of several paintings showing the culmination of a wager between Cleopatra and Mark Antony as to which one could provide the most expensive feast. As recounted in Pliny the Elder's Natural History Cleopatra wins the wager: after Mark Antony's feast, Cleopatra drops a rare and precious pearl from her earring ...