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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.
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 Death of Cleopatra (Jean-André Rixens) The Dying Cleopatra; G. Cleopatra (Artemisia Gentileschi, Ferrara) Cleopatra (Artemisia Gentileschi, Milan) T.
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.
Fletcher describes the painting further on page 87: Cleopatra's hair was maintained by her highly skilled hairdresser Eiras. Although rather artificial looking wigs set in the traditional tripartite style of long straight hair would have been required for her appearances before her Egyptian subjects, a more practical option for general day-to-day wear was the no-nonsense 'melon hairdo' in ...
Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and suspect it may be of the famous Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII. The dig also ...
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).
Cleopatra is a 1611-1612 oil on canvas painting of Cleopatra by Artemisia Gentileschi, now in the private Etro collection in Milan. It is unquestionably from the Gentileschi workshop, but secure authorship to either Orazio or Artemisia is disputed.