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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).
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (/ t i ˈ ɛ p ə l oʊ / tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo, ˈtjeː-]; [1] 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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 ...
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Pages in category "Paintings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... The Banquet of Cleopatra (Tiepolo) C. Ca ...
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Gregory married French journalist Veronique Peck in 1955, and the couple welcomed two children: son Anthony in 1956 and daughter Cecilia in 1958. The actor's firstborn, Jonathan, died by suicide ...
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