File:Encaustic painting cleopatra.png
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Irene Parenti Duclos: Q12876669 | ||
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Artist |
Sartain, John, 1808-1897 |
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Title |
Greek: Εγκαυστική εικόνα της Κλεοπάτρας
French: Cléopâtre label QS:Lel,"Εγκαυστική εικόνα της Κλεοπάτρας"
label QS:Lfr,"Cléopâtre" |
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Object type | painting | |
Description |
English: A steel engraving depicting Caesar Augustus' now lost painting of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818. She is seen here wearing the golden radiant crown of the Ptolemaic rulers (Sartain, 1885, pp. 41, 44) and being bitten by an asp in an act of suicide. She also wears the knot of Isis (i.e. tyet) around her neck, which corresponds to Plutarch's description of her wearing the robes of the Egyptian goddess Isis (Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920, p. 9.) |
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Depicted people | Cleopatra | |
Date |
1885 date QS:P571,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Source/Photographer | Sartain, John (1885). On the Antique Painting in Encaustic of Cleopatra: Discovered in 1818. Philadelphia: George Gebbie & Co. |
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18:16, 31 October 2012 | 1,276 × 1,654 (1.28 MB) | Ογκόλιθος (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description ={{en|1=Caesar Augustus' Lost Painting of Cleopatra in Encaustic}} |Source =http://archive.org/stream/cu31924008637112#page/n7/mode/1up |Author = Sartain, John, 1808-1897 |Date =1885 |Permission ... |
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