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Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra VII Philopator, known to history as Cleopatra, was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek and refused to speak Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents such as the Rosetta Stone. By contrast, Cleopatra did learn to speak Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis. Cleopatra originally ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her brothers, Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually she became sole ruler. As pharaoh, she consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name. After Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C.E. , she aligned with Mark Antony in opposition to Caesar's legal heir, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (later known as Augustus). With Antony, she bore the twins Cleopatra Selene II and Alexander Helios, and another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus. Her unions with her brothers produced no children. After losing the Battle of Actium to Octavian's forces, Antony committed suicide. Cleopatra followed suit, according to tradition killing herself by means of an asp bite on August 12, 30 B.C.E.. She was briefly outlived by Caesarion, who was declared pharaoh by his supporters, but he was soon killed on Octavian's orders. Egypt became the Roman province of Aegyptus. To this day, Cleopatra remains a popular figure in Western culture. Her legacy survives in numerous works of art and the many dramatizations of her story in literature and other media, including William Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, Jules Massenet's opera Cléopâtre and the film Cleopatra (1963). In most depictions, Cleopatra is portrayed as a great beauty, and her successive conquests of the world's most powerful men are taken as proof of her aesthetic and sexual appeal. In his Pensées, philosopher Blaise Pascal contends, evidently speaking ironically because a large nose has symbolized dominance in different periods of history, that Cleopatra's classically beautiful profile changed world history: "Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed."
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CLEOPATRE, FEMME NUE DEBOUT, LES MAINS SUR LES SEINS
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Claude Lorrain
LE DEBARQUEMENT DE CLEOPATRE A TARSE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Domestic worker
- Lighthouse
- Nobility
- Palace
- Port (disambiguation)
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- Date:
- 17th century
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DEBARQUEMENT DE CLEOPATRE AU PORT DE TARSE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient Egypt
- City gate
- Cleopatra VII
- Crowd
- Galley
- Sculpture
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- Date:
- 17th century
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La duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Pearl
- Portrait
- Vase
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Cléopâtre se désolant dans le tombeau de Marc-Antoine
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Crown (headgear)
- Pain
- Tomb
- Woman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Gigoux
Antoine et Cléopatre après la bataille d'Actium
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- Portrayed subject:
- Banquet (disambiguation)
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Crowd
- Mark Antony
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Giampietrino
LE SUICIDE DE CLEOPATRE MORDUE PAR UN ASPIC
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Basket weaving
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Door
- Palace
- Renaissance (disambiguation)
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- Date:
- 16th century
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LA MORT DE CLEOPATRE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cadaver
- Cleopatra VII
- Cuirass
- Domestic worker
- Mark Antony
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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CESAR REMET CLEOPATRE SUR LE TRONE D'EGYPTE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Augustus
- Cleopatra VII
- Crowd
- Serviceman
- Throne
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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LA MORT DE CLEOPATRE, REINE D'EGYPTE
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- Portrayed subject:
- Breast
- Carpet
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Domestic worker
- Egypt
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Palace
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Palace
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Garden
- Palace
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Moreau
Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Nudity
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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La Mort de Cléopâtre
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cadaver
- Cleopatra VII
- Domestic worker
- Viperinae
- Woman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- René-Antoine Houasse
ANTOINE ET CLEOPATRE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Flower
- Mark Antony
- Putto
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Cléopâtre mourant
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- Field(s):
- Sculpture
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- Portrayed subject:
- Breast
- Cleopatra VII
- Nudity
- Viperinae
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Antoine et Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Chariot
- Cleopatra VII
- Column
- Desert
- Galley
- Littoral zone
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Le repas d'Antoine et de Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Banquet (disambiguation)
- Cleopatra VII
- Domestic worker
- Mark Antony
- Palace
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Cléopâtre dissolvant des perles
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Domestic worker
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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- Artist(s):
- Guido Reni
Cléopâtre dissolvant ses perles
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Pearl
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Mort de Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Domestic worker
- Serviceman
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
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La mort de Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Nudity
- Snake
- Suicide
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
Jambes d'une femme étendue, pieds et mains
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Crus (lower leg)
- Hand
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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La mort de Cléopâtre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cleopatra VII
- Nudity
- Sitting
- Woman
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- Date:
- 17th century
- 18th century
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