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Whoopi Goldberg Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg (), is an American actor, comedian, author, and television personality.Kuchwara, Michael (AP Drama Writer)"Whoopi Goldberg: A One-Woman Character Parade". ' ...

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Art

Cleopatra VII Philopator, engraving by Élisabeth Sophie Chéron after a Hellenistic medallion, published c

Giambattista Tiepolo - The Banquet of Cleopatra - Google Art Project

Arnaud Courlet de Vregille Arnaud Courlet de Vregille (5 March 1958) is a French painter. Biography Born into a family of painters and collectors related to Otto van Veen, Peter Paul Rubens' teacher, Arnaud Courlet de Vregille began to draw at a very early age and subs ...

: ''Le Grand Voyage'' (2011) * Robert K. Abbett: cover of '' Cleopatra'' (1962) *

Lawrence Alma-Tadema Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (; born Lourens Alma Tadema ; 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912) was a Dutch painter who later settled in the United Kingdom becoming the last officially recognised denizen in 1873. Born in Dronryp, the Netherlands, ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1875) ** ''The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra'' (1883) *

Ivan Argunov Ivan Petrovich Argunov (russian: Иван Петрович Аргунов) (1729–1802) was a Russian painter, one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting. Biography He was a serf belonging to Count Sheremetev and had grown ...

: ''Умирающая Клеопатра'' (1749) * Francesco Xanto Avelli: ''Marco Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1542) *

Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres (3 February 1930 – 11 April 2018) was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination. Early life and education Gillian Ayres was bo ...

: ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1982) *

Bartolommeo Bandinelli Baccio Bandinelli (also called Bartolommeo Brandini; 12 November 1493 – shortly before 7 February 1560), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draughtsman, and painter. Biography Bandinelli was the son of a prominent Florentine goldsmith, ...

: ''Cleopatra'' * Francesco Baratta: ''Cleopatra'' * François Barois: ''Cléopâtre mourant'' (1700) *

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

: ''Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente'' (1763) *

Hans Sebald Beham Sebald Beham (1500–1550) was a German painter and printmaker, mainly known for his very small engravings. Born in Nuremberg, he spent the later part of his career in Frankfurt. He was one of the most important of the " Little Masters", the group ...

: ''Der tod der Kleopatra'' (1529) *

Gyula Benczúr Gyula Benczúr (28 January 1844, Nyíregyháza – 16 July 1920, Szécsény) was a Hungarian painter and art teacher. He specialized in portraits and historical scenes. Biography His family moved to Kassa when he was still very young and he di ...

: ''Kleopátra'' (1911) * Claude Bertin: ''Cléopâtre se suicide'' (c. 1697) * Jacques Blanchard: ''La mort de Cléopâtra'' (c. 1620) * Arnold Böcklin ''Kleopatra'' (1872) * Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi ''Cleopatra'' (1519–1522) * Boucicaut Master: ''Cléopâtre est présentée avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant'' (c. 1415) ** ''Le tombeau de Marc Antony et de Cléopâtre'' (c. 1415) *

Frederick Arthur Bridgman Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American artist known for his paintings of " Orientalist" subjects. Life and career Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Bridgman was the son of a physician. He began as a d ...

: ''Cleopatra on the Terraces of

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'' (1896) ** ''Cleopatra's Barge'' *

Frank Brunner Frank Brunner (born February 21, 1949) is an American comics artist and illustrator best known for his work at Marvel Comics in the 1970s. Early life Brunner attended Manhattan's High School of Art and Design. He was in the same graduating class ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1976) *

Winifred Brunton Winifred Mabel Brunton ''née Newberry'' (6 May 1880 – 29 January 1959) was a South African painter, illustrator and Egyptologist. Early years Brunton was born in 1880 in the Orange Free State South Africa. Her father, Charles Newberry, a m ...

: ''Queen Cleopatra VII'' *

Alexandre Cabanel Alexandre Cabanel (; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter. According to ''Diccionario Enciclopedi ...

: '' Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condangés à mort'' (1887) *

Guido Cagnacci Guido Cagnacci (13 January 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter originally from Santarcangelo di Romagna. Associated most readily with the Baroque period, his mature works are characterized by their use of chiaroscuro and their sensual subje ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1658) ** ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1660) *

Denis Calvaert Denis (or Denys or Denijs) Calvaert (; around 154016 April 1619) was an Antwerp-born Flemish painter, who lived in Italy for most of his life, where he was known as Dionisio Fiammingo () or simply Il Fiammingo ("the Fleming"). Calvaert was a profo ...

: ''De dood van Cleopatra'' (1590) * Andrea Casali: ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' *

André Castaigne Jean Alexandre Michel André Castaigne (7 January 1861, Angoulême, Charente''The Encyclopedia Americana'' Vol.5 (1918) The Encyclopedia Americana Corp., New York – 1929, Angoulême) was a French artist and engraver, a student of Jean-Léon ...

: ''Antoine et Cléopâtre'' (1911) *

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: ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1760) *

Demetre Chiparus Demetre is an Old Greek Old Greek is the Greek language as spoken from Late Antiquity (c. AD 400) to around AD 1500. Greek spoken during this period is usually split into: *Late Greek (c. 400 – c. 800 AD) *Medieval Greek (c. 800 – c. 1500 AD ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (c. 1925) * Giovanni Battista Cipriani: ''Cleopatra'' ''after'' Benvenuto Cellini * Auguste Clésinger: ''Cléopâtre'' *

Henry Clive Henry Clive (October 3, 1883–December 12, 1960) was an Australian-born American graphic artist and illustrator. Clive is known particularly for his illustrations in ''The American Weekly'' and cover series, which were posed for by screen celebr ...

, ''Cleopatra'' (1929) (1946) * John Collier: ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1890) * Michel Corneille ''Cléopâtre et l'aspic'' (1650–1660) *

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1710) * Pietro da Cortona: ''

Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt ''Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt'' is an oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona. No documents survive to precisely date it, though current art historical consensus is that it was 1637 (or 1643 according to itJOCONDE en ...

'' ("Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto") (1637) *

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...

: ''Cesare y Cleopatra'' (1972) ** ''La muerte de Cleopatra'' (1975) ** ''Les Amoureux Antoine et Cléopâtre'' (1979) * Leonardo da Pistoia: ''Cleopatra'' "Cleopatra" (in Italian)
April 24, 2010 * George and Edward Dalziel: ''Cleopatra'' (1864) after

Frederick Sandys Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (born Antonio Frederic Augustus Sands; 1 May 1829 – 25 June 1904), usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter, illustrator, and draughtsman, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was also assoc ...

Jacopo de' Barbari Jacopo de' Barbari, sometimes known or referred to as de'Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo (c. 1460/70 – before 1516), was an Italian painter, printmaker and miniaturist with a highly individual style. H ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (c. 1508) *

Jan de Bray Jan de Bray (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam. Jan de Bray was influenced by his father Salomon de Bray, and the por ...

: ''Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra'' (1669) *

Eugène Delacroix Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...

: ''Cléopâtre et le paysan'' (1838) *

Gerard de Lairesse Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 – June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and Fr ...

: ''La banquet de Cléopâtre'' (1680) * Jean François de Troy: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' * Archie Dickens: ''Cleopatra'' (1990) *

Erté Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials (, EHR TEH). He was a 20th-century artist and designer in an a ...

: cover for the February 1927 '' Harper's Bazaar'' * Thomas Francis Dicksee: ''Cleopatra'' (1876) *

Piero di Cosimo Piero di Cosimo (2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522), also known as Piero di Lorenzo, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He is most famous for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento; he is said to ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1485–1490) *

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a sho ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' *

Jean-Bernard Duvivier Jean-Bernard Duvivier (Bruges, 1762 – Paris, 1837) was a painter and drawer of portraits and historical and religious subjects, a book illustrator and a professor at the Normal School in Paris. After having been instructed by Hubert and Paul ...

: ''Cléopâtre'' (1789) * Edward Mason Eggleston: ''Cleopatra'' (1934) * Adrian Feint: ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' *

Harrison Fisher Harrison Fisher (July 27, 1875 or 1877 – January 19, 1934) was an American illustrator. Career Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists.Harrison & Carrin ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1907) *

Lavinia Fontana Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614) was a Bolognese Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She was trai ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1585) *

Elisabeth Frink Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink (14 November 1930 – 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her ''Times'' obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in ...

: ''Anthony and Cleopatra'' (1982), modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon *

Felice Ficherelli Felice Ficherelli (30 August 1605 – 5 March 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in San Gimignano and active mainly in Tuscany it, Toscano (man) it, Toscana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1 ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1650) ** ''Scene dalla vita di Cleopatra''

silver Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin ', derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical ...

basin (1620–1625) after

Bernardo Strozzi Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintin ...

* Margaret Foley: ''Cleopatra'' * Giacomo Francia: ''Cleopatra'' *

Francesco Furini Francesco Furini (c. 1600 (or 1603) – August 19, 1646) was an Italian Baroque painter of Florence, noted for his sensual sfumato style in paintings of both secular and religious subjects. Biography He was born in Florence to an artistic ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' *

Louis Gauffier Louis Gauffier (1762–1801) was a French painter. Born in Poitiers, he studied in Paris with the history painting, history painter Hughes Taraval before entering the Prix de Rome competition which he won in 1779 for ''Christ and the Woman of Can ...

: ''Cléopâtre et Octavian'' (1788) *

Cesare Gennari Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His ''Saint Mary Magdalene'' is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento. His ''Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Nicholas of Bari'' is at the Pinacoteca ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1663) * Artemisia Gentileschi: ''Cleopatra'' (1621–1622) ** ''Cleopatra'' (1630) *

Orazio Gentileschi Orazio Lomi Gentileschi (1563–1639) was an Italian painter. Born in Tuscany, he began his career in Rome, painting in a Mannerist style, much of his work consisting of painting the figures within the decorative schemes of other artists. After ...

: ''Cleopatra'' *

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...

: '' Cléopâtre et César'' (1866) *

Giampietrino Giampietrino, probably Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli (active 1495–1549), was a north Italian painter of the Lombard school and Leonardo's circle, succinctly characterized by S. J. Freedberg as an "exploiter of Leonardo's repertory."Freedberg, 1993 ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (c. 1525) ** ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (c. 1530) *

Achille Glisenti Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 – December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects. Biography He was born in Brescia and had his first training there under Luigi Campini. He then studied at the ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1878) *

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Earl ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (c. 1700) * Pierre Gobert: '' La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre'' *

Thomas Ridgeway Gould Thomas Ridgeway Gould (November 5, 1818 – November 26, 1881) was an American neoclassical sculptor active in Boston and Florence. Biography Gould was born in Boston on November 5, 1818. He was at first a merchant with his brother in the dry ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1873) *

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vi ...

: ''Il suicidio di Cleopatra'' (1621) ** ''La Cleopatra morente'' (c. 1648) * Gavin Hamilton: ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1767) * Augustin Hirschvogel: ''Der tod der Kleopatra'' *

Gerard Hoet Gerard Hoet (; 22 August 1648 – 2 December 1733) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Biography Gerard Hoet trained with his father and brother who were glass painters, and Warnard van Rijsen, who lived in Zaltbommel, and who h ...

: ''Het Feest van Cleopatra'' * Howard David Johnson: ''Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt'' * Jacob Jordaens: ''Het Feest van Cleopatra'' (1653) *

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (called ''Lagrenée l'aîné'', Lagrenée the elder) (30 December 1724 – 19 June 1805) was a French rococo painter and student of Carle van Loo. He won the ''Grand Prix de Rome'' for painting in 1749 and wa ...

: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' * Giovanni Lanfranco: ''Il suicidio di Cleopatra'' (1632–1633) *

Gregorio Lazzarini Gregorio Lazzarini (1657 – 10 November 1730) was an Italian painter of mythological, religious and historical subjects, as well as portraits. One of the most successful Venetian artists of the day, a prominent teacher, and father to a signific ...

: ''Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza'' *

Edmonia Lewis Mary Edmonia Lewis, also known as "Wildfire" (c. July 4, 1844 – September 17, 1907), was an American sculptor, of mixed African-American and Native American ( Mississauga Ojibwe) heritage. Born free in Upstate New York, she worked for most of ...

: ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1876) *

Johann Liss Johann Liss or Jan Lys ( or 1597 – 1629 or 1630) was a leading German Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Venice. Biography Liss was born in Oldenburg (Holstein) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. After an initial education ...

: ''Der tod der Kleopatra'' (1622–1624) * Claude Lorrain: ''Le débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse'' (1642–1643) *

Juan Luna Juan Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta (, ; October 23, 1857 – December 7, 1899) was a Filipino painter, sculptor and a political activist of the Philippine Revolution during the late 19th century. He became one of the first recogni ...

: '' La muerte de Cleopatra'' (1881) * Angelica Kauffman: ''Cleopatra'' *

Hans Makart Hans Makart (28 May 1840 – 3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. Makart was a prolific painter whose ideas significantly influenced the development of visual art in Austria-Hungary, Ger ...

: ''Der tod der Kleopatra'' (1875) ** ''Die Niljagd der Kleopatra'' (1883–1884) *

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

: ''Cleopatra e la perla'' (1650) *

Jan Matsys Jan Massijs or Jan Matsys (c.1510 – 8 October 1575) was a Flemish Renaissance painter known for his history paintings, genre scenes and landscapes. He also gained a reputation as a painter of the female nude, which he painted with a sensua ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (c. 1565) * Luigi Mayer ''Baths of Cleopatra at Alexandria'' (1802), commissioned by Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet * Giuseppe Mazzuoli: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (c. 1713) * Sebastiano Mazzoni: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' ** ''Il Banchetto di Cleopatra'' (1660) *

Angus McBride Angus McBride (11 May 1931 – 15 May 2007) was an English historical and fantasy illustrator. Early life Born in London to Highland Scots parents, Angus McBride was orphaned as a child, his mother dying when he was five years old, and his f ...

: ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1973) *

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replace ...

: ''Augustus und Kleopatra'' (1761) * Michelangelo: ''Cleopatra'' (1533–1534) *

Pierre Mignard Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called "Mignard le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits. He was ...

: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' (1670) *

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.' ...

: ''Cléopâtre'' (c. 1887) *

Caspar Netscher Caspar (or Gaspar) Netscher (1639 – January 15, 1684) was a Dutch portrait and genre painter. He was a master in depicting oriental rugs, silk and brocade and introduced an international style to the Northern Netherlands. Life According to Ar ...

: ''De dood van Cleopatra'' (1673) * Terese Nielsen: ''Cleopatra'' *

Theodor Pallady Theodor Pallady (; 11 April 1871 – 16 August 1956) was a Romanian painter. Biography Theodor Pallady was the son of Ioan Pallady and Maria Cantacuzino, the older sister of Romanian diplomat Neculai B. Cantacuzino. He was born in Iași, Romani ...

: ''Cleopatra'' "Two Tragic Destinies: Cleopatra and Lucretia" ''pyb.com.au''
April 24, 2010 *

Michael Parkes Michael Parkes (born October 12, 1944 in Sikeston, Missouri) is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism. He specializes in painting, stone lithography and sculpture. He ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1990) *

Maxfield Parrish Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spann ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1917) * Gianfrancesco Penni: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' * Johann Georg Platzer: ''Antonius und Kleopatra in der Schlacht bei Actium'' (c. 1750) ** ''Das Gastmal der Kleopatra'' (1750) *

Valentine Cameron Prinsep Valentine Cameron "Val" Prinsep (14 February 18384 November 1904) was a British painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school. Early life Born in Calcutta, India, he was the second child of Henry Thoby Prinsep, a civil servant of the British Raj, and ...

: ''The Death of Cleopatra'' *

Domenico Puligo Domenico Puligo (1492–1527) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Florence. His real name was ''Domenico di Bartolomeo Ubaldini''. He trained under Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and acted as an assistant to Andrea del Sarto, whom he als ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (c. 1525) *

Marcantonio Raimondi Marcantonio Raimondi, often called simply Marcantonio (c. 1470/82 – c. 1534), was an Italian engraver, known for being the first important printmaker whose body of work consists largely of prints copying paintings. He is therefore a key figu ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1520–1525) *

Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I ...

: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' (1796–1799) * Rembrandt: ''Studie van een naakt vrouw als Cleopatra'' (c. 1637) * Guido Reni: ''Cleopatra con l'aspide'' (1630) ** ''Cleopatra'' (1635–1640) *

Pietro Ricchi Pietro Ricchi (1606 – 15 August 1675) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in Lucca. In 1632–33, he was in France and painted a fresco the rooms of . Fléchères salon chasses4.JPG, 'Salon de la Chasse' : boar hunt Fléchères ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (c. 1670) * Sebastiano Ricci: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' * Domenico Riccio: ''Il suicidio di Cleopatra'' (1552) *

Antoine Rivalz Self-portrait in 1721 Antoine Rivalz (1667 – 11 December 1735) was a French painter. Born in Toulouse, the son of Jean-Pierre Rivalz (who painted and designed the city's hôtel de ville), Antoine became the town's official painter, and was a ...

: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' *

Jean-André Rixens Jean-André Rixens (30 November 1846 – 21 February 1925) was a French painter, known for his classical scenes and portraits. Biography He was born in Saint-Gaudens. His father was a master shoemaker. After completing his basic education, ...

: ''La mort de Cléopâtre'' (1874) *

Girolamo Romani Girolamo Romani, known as Romanino (c. 1485 - c. 1566), was an Italian High Renaissance painter active in the Veneto and Lombardy, near Brescia. His long career brought forth several different styles. Biography Romani was born in Brescia. Hi ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' lunette (1531–1532) *

Mimmo Rotella Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella (Catanzaro, 7 October 1918 – Milan, 8 January 2006) was an Italian artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. Best known for his works of décollage and psychogeographics, made from torn advert ...

: ''Cleopatra'' *

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradi ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1615) *

School of Fontainebleau The School of Fontainbleau (french: École de Fontainebleau) (c. 1530 – c. 1610) refers to two periods of artistic production in France during the late Renaissance centered on the royal Palace of Fontainebleau that were crucial in forming the No ...

: ''Cléopâtre'' ** ''Cléopâtre'' (1754) * Eliza Sharpe: ''Cleopatra'' *

Elisabetta Sirani Elisabetta Sirani (8 January 1638 – 28 August 1665) was an Italian Baroque painter and printmaker who died in unexplained circumstances at the age of 27. She was a pioneering female artist in early modern Bologna, who established an academy fo ...

: ''Cleopatra'' * Andrea Solari: ''Cleopatra'' *

Leonello Spada Leonello Spada (also called ''Lionello Spada'') (1576 – 17 May 1622) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and his native city of Bologna, where he became known as one of the followers of Caravaggio. Biography He ...

: ''La morte di Cleopatra'' * Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal: ''Cleopatra'' (1858), from

Mary Cowden Clarke Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke (née Novello; pen names, M. H. and Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow; 22 June 1809 – 12 January 1898) was an English author, and compiler of a concordance to Shakespeare. Early life and education Mary Victoria Novello ...

's ''World Noted Women'' *

Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; 1585 – 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a painter of altarpiece ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1630) *

William Wetmore Story William Wetmore Story (February 12, 1819 – October 7, 1895) was an American sculptor, art critic, poet, and editor. Life and career William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo (Wetmore) Story. He graduated from H ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (1869) * Jean-Joseph Taillasson: ''Cléopâtre découvert par Rodogune d'avoir empoisonné la coupe nuptial'' (1791) * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted several works and cycles on Anthony and Cleopatra. ''

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'' (1744) is in

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, Australia. Tiepolo returned to the subject a few years later in a scene in his fresco cycle on Anthony and Cleopatra in the

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. A further large oil Tiepolo version is paired with a ''Meeting of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony''. This is in

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near Moscow (1747, 338 x 600 cm). There are several

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'' and drawings. *

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: ''Queen Cleopatra'' *

Michele Tosini Michele Tosini, also called ''Michele di Ridolfo'', (1503–1577) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance and Mannerist period, who worked in Florence. Biography He apprenticed initially with Lorenzo di Credi and Antonio del Ceraiolo, but the ...

: ''Cleopatra'' *

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: ''Il banchetto di Marco Antonio'' (1702) *

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: ''In the Palace in Alexandria'' (1795), published by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery dramatizing '' Antony and Cleopatra'' * Alessandro Turchi: ''La morte di Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1630–1635) ** ''La morte di Cleopatra'' (1640) * Anthony van Dyck: ''Death of Cleopatra VII'' *

Justus van Egmont Justus van Egmont or Joost van Egmont (1601 – 8 January 1674) was a painter and a tapestry designer during the 17th century.tapestry Tapestry is a form of textile art, traditionally woven by hand on a loom. Tapestry is weft-faced weaving, in which all the warp threads are hidden in the completed work, unlike most woven textiles, where both the warp and the weft threads ma ...

Willem van Mieris Willem van Mieris (3 June 166226 January 1747) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Willem van Mieris was a painter, sculptor and etcher active in Leiden. He was born in Leiden and studied under his father Fran ...

: ''De dood van Cleopatra'' (1694) *

Jan van Scorel Jan van Scorel (1 August 1495 – 6 December 1562) was a Dutch painter, who played a leading role in introducing aspects of Italian Renaissance painting into Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. He was one of the early painters of the Ro ...

: ''De stervende Cleopatra'' (c. 1523) * Alessandro Varotari: ''Cleopatra'' *

Vecchietta Lorenzo di Pietro (1410 – June 6, 1480), known as Vecchietta, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, ...

: ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' *

Claude Vignon Claude Vignon (19 May 1593 – 10 May 1670) was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator who worked in a wide range of genres.Paola Pacht Bassani. "Vignon, Claude." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 November ...

: ''Cléopâtre se donnant la mort'' (c. 1640) *

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: "Les suicides d'Antoine et Cléopâtre" from ''Le Miroir Historial'' * John William Waterhouse: ''Cleopatra'' (1888) *

Richard Caton Woodville Richard Caton Woodville (30 April 1825 – 13 August 1855) was an American artist from Baltimore who spent his professional career in Europe, after studying in Düsseldorf under the direction of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. He died of an overdose of mor ...

: ''Cleopatra'' ** ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1889) for ''

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Astronomy

* Johann Palisa named

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after Cleopatra

Ballet

Jean-Pierre Aumer Jean-Louis Aumer (21 April 1774 – 6 July 1833), also referred to as Jean-Pierre Aumer, was a French ballet dancer and choreographer. Early life and career as a dancer Aumer was born in Strasbourg of a manual labourer and non-theatrical parents ...

and

Rodolphe Kreutzer Rodolphe Kreutzer (15 November 1766 – 6 January 1831) was a French violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas, including '' La mort d'Abel'' (1810). He is probably best known as the dedicatee of Beethoven's Violin S ...

: ''Antony et Cléopâtre'' (1808) *

Michel Fokine Michael Fokine, ''Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokin'', group=lower-alpha ( – 22 August 1942) was a groundbreaking Imperial Russian choreographer and dancer. Career Early years Fokine was born in Saint Petersburg to a prosperous merchant an ...

and Anton Arensky: ''Nuit d'Egypte'' (1908) ** restaged as ''Cléopâtre'' (1909) by

Sergei Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, pa ...

, starring

Ida Rubinstein Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (russian: И́да Льво́вна Рубинште́йн; – 20 September 1960) was a Russian dancer, actress, art patron and Belle Époque figure. She performed with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1911 a ...

, costumed by Léon Bakst * Martha Graham and

Halim El-Dabh Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had ...

: ''One More Gaudy Night'' (1961) * David Nixon and

Claude-Michel Schönberg Claude-Michel Schönberg (born 6 July 1944, in Vannes) is a French record producer, actor, singer, songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with lyricist Alain Boublil. Major works include '' La Révolution Fran ...

: ''Cleopatra'' (2011) for the

Northern Ballet Northern Ballet, formerly Northern Ballet Theatre, is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance productions where the emphasis is on story telling as well as classical ballet. The company ...

Jean-Georges Noverre Jean-Georges Noverre (29 April 1727 19 October 1810) was a French dancer and balletmaster, and is generally considered the creator of ''ballet d'action'', a precursor of the narrative ballets of the 19th century. His birthday is now observed as ...

: ''Antony et Cléopâtre'' (1765) * Ben Stevenson: ''Cleopatra'' (2000) for the

Houston Ballet Houston Ballet, operated by Houston Ballet Foundation, is a professional ballet company based in Houston, Texas. The company, consisting of 59 dancers, produces over 85 performances per year. History Tatiana Semenova (1955–1967) Houston dev ...

Beauty and fashion

* Colgate-Palmolive: Cleopatra line of beauty cream, soap and lotions

Celebrities

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posed as Theda Bara as Cleopatra for the December 22, 1958 ''

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'', shot by

Richard Avedon Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Vogue'' and ''Elle'' specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and danc ...

* Sandra Bernhard posed as Cleopatra for the August 1989 cover of ''

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'' *

Kim Kardashian Kimberly Noel Kardashian (formerly West; born October 21, 1980) is an American socialite, media personality, and businesswoman. She first gained media attention as a friend and stylist of Paris Hilton, but received wider notice after the s ...

posed as Cleopatra based on Elizabeth Taylor's portrayal for the March 2011 '' Harper's Bazaar''

Comics

* Robert Bernstein: ''Tales of Suspense #44'',

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follows The Mad Pharaoh to ancient Egypt, and aids Cleopatra * Bret Blevins and

Rick Remender Rick Remender (born February 6, 1973) is an American animator, comic book writer and television producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. As a comic book creator, he is best known for his work on '' Uncanny X-Force'', ''Venom'', ''Captain ...

: ''Legion of the Supernatural, #3'' *

Walter Crane Walter Crane (15 August 184514 March 1915) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children's book creators of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Ka ...

: ''Sheba'' *

René Goscinny René Goscinny (, ; 14 August 1926 – 5 November 1977) was a French comic editor and writer, who created the ''Astérix'' comic book series with illustrator Albert Uderzo. Raised largely in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he attended French schoo ...

and

Albert Uderzo Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (; ; 25 April 1927 – 24 March 2020), better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the '' Astérix'' series in collaboration with ...

: Cleopatra is a recurring character in the ''

Asterix ''Asterix'' or ''The Adventures of Asterix'' (french: Astérix or , "Asterix the Gauls, Gaul") is a ''bande dessinée'' comic book book series, series about a village of indomitable Gaulish warriors who adventure around the world and fight th ...

'' comic series, first appearing in

Asterix and Cleopatra ''Asterix and Cleopatra'' is the sixth book in the Asterix album series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. It was first published in serial form in ''Pilote'' magazine, issues 215–257, in 1963. Synopsis The book begins with an argument b ...

* Don Marquis: ''

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'' * Vicente Segrelles: ''Cleopatra'' * Mike Maihack: '' Cleopatra in Space'' (2014)

Documentaries

*'' Ancients Behaving Badly: Cleopatra'' (2009) *''Cleopatra, Portrait of a Killer'' (2009) (Camelia Ben Sakour) *''Rome's Greatest Battles: Actium'' (2010) (

Laëtitia Eïdo Laëtitia Eïdo (born October 25, 1985) is a French actress, born to a French father and a Lebanese mother. She is best known as Dr. Shirin El Abed, one of the leading roles in the Israeli Netflix series '' Fauda'', and as the voice of Mira in the ...

)

Educational cultural depictions

* ''Journey Down The Nile'': a film, lecture, and cultural dance program, by

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Film

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* '' Cléopâtre'' (1899) (

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) * '' Antony and Cleopatra'' (1908) ( Florence Lawrence) * '' Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt'' (1912) ( Helen Gardner) * '' Cleopatra'' (1917) (

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) * ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1924) (

Ethel Teare Ethel Teare (January 11, 1894 – March 4, 1959) was an American silent film actress from Phoenix, Arizona. Screen comedian Her first film appearances came in 1914. She performed in ''The Widow's Might'', ''Fatty and the Shyster Lawyer'', ''T ...

) * '' Cleopatra'' (1934) (

Claudette Colbert Claudette Colbert ( ; born Émilie Claudette Chauchoin; September 13, 1903July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures ...

) * ''

Dante's Inferno ''Inferno'' (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem ''Divine Comedy''. It is followed by ''Purgatorio'' and '' Paradiso''. The ''Inferno'' describes Dante's journey through Hell, gui ...

'' (1935) (Lorna Low) * ''Cleopatra'' (1943) (Amina Rizk) * ''Caesar and Cleopatra (film), Caesar and Cleopatra'' (1945) (Vivien Leigh) * ''The Bishop's Wife'' (1947): Dudley states that Wutheridge's coin was struck by Julius Caesar to pay for Cleopatra's visit to Rome * ''Serpent of the Nile'' (1953) (Rhonda Fleming) * ''Two Nights with Cleopatra, Due notti con Cleopatra'' (1954) (Sophia Loren) * ''The Story of Mankind (film), The Story of Mankind'' (1957) (Virginia Mayo) * ''A Queen for Caesar'' (1962) (Pascale Petit (actress), Pascale Petit) * ''Cleopatra (1963 film), Cleopatra'' (1963) (Elizabeth Taylor) * ''Totò e Cleopatra'' (1963) (Magali Noël) * ''Take Her, She's Mine'' (1963): Mollie and several other women at a costume party are dressed as Cleopatra * ''Carry On Cleo'' (1964) (Amanda Barrie) * ''Asterix and Cleopatra (film), Asterix and Cleopatra'' (1968) (Micheline Dax) * ''Cleopatra (1970 film), Cleopatra'' (1970) (Chinatsu Nakayama) * ''Cleopatra'' (1970) (Viva (Warhol superstar), Viva) * ''Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film), Antony and Cleopatra'' (1972) (Hildegarde Neil) * ''Highway to Hell (film), Highway to Hell'' (1992) (Amy Stiller) * ''Cleopatra (1999 film), Cleopatra'' (1999) (Leonor Varela) * ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (2002) (Monica Bellucci) * ''Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?'' (2005) (Virginia Madsen) * ''Giulio Cesare'' (2006) (Danielle de Niese) * On October 14, 2020, Patty Jenkins was confirmed to direct a film on Cleopatra with Gal Gadot in the title role

Games

* ''Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome'': The campaign in "Pax Romana: 1. Actium" has a history section that talks about Antony and Cleopatra falling in love, the navy battle in Egypt, and their downfall by suicide. The player must sink Cleopatra's barge in order to win the campaign. * Anachronism (game), ''Anachronism'' Set 2 includes Cleopatra. * ''Assassin's Creed II'': In the backstory of the game, Cleopatra is included in a list of tyrannical rulers targeted by the assassins. She is killed by a female assassin named Amunet, who assassinates her using an asp to make the queen's death appear to be a suicide. * ''Assassin's Creed Origins'': Cleopatra plays a more active role in the story of this later entry to the franchise, first as an ally to the Hidden Ones, a predecessor to the Assassin Brotherhood, and later as an enemy along with Julius Caesar. Her killer Amunet, once known as Aya of Alexandria, also plays a major role as a leader of the Hidden Ones and ex-wife of the protagonist, Bayek of Siwa. * BreakAway Games, BreakAway's and Impressions Games, Impressions's ''Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile'' (2000) * ''Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone'' – Cleopatra appears as an end boss in the final level of the arcade game. * ''Cleopatra and the Society of Architects'' * ''Cleopatra Fortune'' * ''Civilization II'' * ''Civilization III'' * ''Civilization VI'' * ''Civilization Revolution'' * Cleopatra is a playable character in the Mobile/PC Game Rise of Kingdoms. * Dante's Inferno (video game), ''Dante's Inferno'' * ''Fate/Grand Order'': Cleopatra is an Assassin class servant. She is the antagonist of a Halloween event, where she wishes to reunite with Caesar and is dismayed to find that he has grown fat. * Kheops Studio's ''Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny'' (2007) * Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (video game), ''Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'' * ''Scribblenauts (video game), Scribblenauts'' and its sequels * ''Shadow of Rome'': Iris and Charmian, twins who appear throughout the game who employ the character Sextus and his gladiators, are implied to be working for Cleopatra, even though it is never confirmed. * ''Total War: Rome II'' * International Game Technology has a series of Cleopatra slot machines.

Literature

* Jacob Abbott: ''Cleopatra'' (1879) * Giovanni Boccaccio: "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae" (from ''De mulieribus claris'') * Gillian Bradshaw: ''Cleopatra's Heir'' * Charlotte Brontë: ''Villette (novel), Villette'', Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra * Pat Brown (criminal profiler): ''The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case'' (2013) * Mary Butts: ''Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra'' (1935) * Jeffrey K. Gardner: '' Cleopatra'' * Georg Ebers: ''Kleopatra'' (1894) * Karen Essex: ''Kleopatra'' (2001) and ''Pharaoh'' (2002) * Colin Falconer (writer), Colin Falconer: ''When We Were Gods'' (2000) * Sarah Fielding: ''The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia'' (1758) * Théophile Gautier: "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre" (1838) * Margaret George: ''The Memoirs of Cleopatra'' (1997) * Delphine de Girardin: ''Cléopâtre'' (1847) * Kristiana Gregory: ''The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.'' * Henry Gréville: ''Cléopâtre'' (1886) * H. Rider Haggard: ''Cleopatra (1889 novel), Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis'' * E. E. Y. Hales: ''Chariot of Fire'' (1977 Fantasy novel) (sent to Hell after her death, Cleopatra plans a revolution against Satan) * Margaret Carver Leighton: ''Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon'' (1969) * Michael Livingston: ''The Shards of Heaven'' (2015) * Emil Ludwig: ''Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin'' (1937) * Colleen McCullough: ''Caesar (McCullough novel), Caesar: Let the Dice Fly'', ''The October Horse'', and ''Antony and Cleopatra (novel), Antony and Cleopatra'' * Michelle Moran: ''Cleopatra's Daughter'' (2009) * Talbot Mundy: ''Queen Cleopatra'' (1929) * Ray Nelson (author), Ray Nelson: "Blake's Progress", an Alternate History - Cleopatra wins at Battle of Actium, Actium, leading to a future of a Greek-speaking, Isis-worshiping world civilization * Plutarch: ''Life of Antony'' * François Rabelais: ''Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès'' (1553) * Steven Saylor: ''Roma Sub Rosa, The Judgment of Caesar'' * Stacy Schiff: ''Cleopatra: A Life'' (2010) * John Maddox Roberts: ''SPQR series, The Princess and the Pirates'' * Thornton Wilder: ''The Ides of March (novel), The Ides of March''

Music

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* Tal Bachman's "She's So High (Tal Bachman song), She's So High" references Cleopatra * Charles Griffes's "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1912) * Charlie Sexton's "Impressed" references Antony and Cleopatra (from ''Pictures for Pleasure'') * Danny Schmidt's "Cleopatra" (2005) * Spin Doctors's "Cleopatra's Cat" (1994) (from ''Turn It Upside Down'') * Sophie Tucker's "Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band" (1917) * Thompson Twins's "Lies (Thompson Twins song), Lies" references Cleopatra * Adam and the Ants's "Cleopatra" from ''Dirk Wears White Sox''; later covered by Elastica * Frank Ocean's "Pyramids (song), Pyramids" (2012) extensively references Cleopatra * Epic Rap Battles of History's " Cleopatra vs.

" * Katy Perry's video for "Dark Horse (Katy Perry song), Dark Horse" features an Ancient Egyptian theme, with her playing "Katy-Patra" * Madonna's "Like It or Not" references Cleopatra (from ''Confessions on a Dance Floor'') * The Lumineers' ''Cleopatra (album), Cleopatra''. The album cover is of

in '' Cleopatra'' * Zico (rapper), Zico's video for "Eureka" features him being imprisoned by Cleopatra * Cleopatra's "Cleopatra's Theme", from the album ''Comin' Atcha'' (1998). * The ''Godiva's Hymn, Engineers' Drinking Song'' has a verse that lampoons the relationship between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar * "That's What Love Is" from the 1964 film ''Surf Party'' references Cleopatra

Opera

* ''Cleopatra'' (1779) by Pasquale Anfossi * ''Antony and Cleopatra (opera), Antony and Cleopatra'' by Samuel Barber * ''La Mort de Cléopâtre'' (1829) (cantata) by Hector Berlioz * ''Antoine et Cléopâtre'' (1972) by Emmanuel Bondeville * ''Cleopatra'' (1904) (tone poem) by George Whitefield Chadwick * ''La Cleopatra'' by Domenico Cimarosa * ''Omnium'' (2005) by Teatro ZinZanni, Norman Durkee * ''Antoine et Cléopâtre'' (2006) by Lewis Furey (adapted from Shakespeare's ''Antony and Cleopatra'') * "Variation de Cléopâtre" (from ''Faust (opera), Faust'') by Charles Gounod * ''Cleopatra e Cesare'' (1742) by Carl Heinrich Graun * ''Great Caesar'' (1899) (burlesque) by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens (composer), Paul Rubens * ''Cleopatra's Night'' by Henry Kimball Hadley * ''Giulio Cesare'' (1724) by George Frideric Handel * ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1725) (serenata) by Johann Adolph Hasse * ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1937) by Gian Francesco Malipiero * ''Cléopâtre'' (1914) by Jules Massenet * ''Die unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten'' (1704) by Johann Mattheson * ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1701) (serenata) by Alessandro Scarlatti * ''Die Perlen der Kleopatra'' (1923) by Oscar Straus (composer), Oscar Straus

Plays

* ''Caesar's Revenge'' (1595) by Anonymous * ''The False One'' (1620) by Francis Beaumont and Philip Massinger * ''Caesar in Egypt'' (1724) by Colley Cibber (Cleopatra is a major character) * '' Cleopatra'' by Samuel Daniel * ''All for Love (play), All for Love'' by John Dryden * ''Marc-Antoine'' (c. 1578) by Robert Garnier * ''Harmachio'' (1890) by H. Rider Haggard (renamed ''Cleopatra'' in 1891) * ''Cléopâtre Captive'' (1552–1553) by Étienne Jodelle * ''Cleopatra'' (1661) by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein * ''Cléopâtre'' (1630) by Jean Mairet''Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama''
E. Cobham Brewer; Mary Virginia Terhune, Marion Harland p. 240 23 April 2010 * ''Cleopâtre'' (1750) by Jean-François Marmontel * ''Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Her Tragedy'' (1639) by Thomas May * ''Cléopâtre'' (1890) by Émile Moreau (playwright), Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou * ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1677) by Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet, Charles Sedley * '' Antony and Cleopatra'' by William Shakespeare * ''Caesar and Cleopatra (play), Caesar and Cleopatra'' by George Bernard Shaw * ''The Death of Cleopatra'' (1929) by Ahmed Shawqi * ''The Tragedy of Antonie'' (c. 1592) by Mary Sidney

Poetry

* "Dead Cleopatra Lies in a Crystal Casket" (1917) by Conrad Aiken * "Cerchio II, Canto V" by Dante Alighieri (from ''Inferno (Dante), Inferno'') * "Клеопатра" by Anna Akhmatova * "Cléopâtre" (1670) by Isaac de Benserade * "Cleopatrie Martiris, Egipti Regine" by Geoffrey Chaucer (from ''The Legend of Good Women'') * "Cleopatra" by Robert Crawford (Australian poet), Robert Crawford * "La Cleopatra (poem), La Cleopatra" (1632) by Girolamo Graziani * "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (from ''Les Trophées'', 1878–1887) by José-Maria de Heredia * "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1960) by Ted Hughes * "Cleopatra" (1836) by Letitia Elizabeth Landon * "Antony and Cleopatra" (1857) by William Haines Lytle * "Au jardin de l’infante, Cléopâtre" (1893) by Albert Samain * "Early in the Morning" (1955) by Louis Simpson"Louis Simpson, Early in the Morning" ''The Wadsworth Anthology of Poetry''
24 April 2010 * "After Reading ''Antony and Cleopatra''" (1890) by Robert Louis Stevenson * "Cleopatra" (1868) by

* "Cleopatra" (1864) by Algernon Charles Swinburne * "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1897) by John B. Tabb

Television

* ''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (1965) (Valeria Valeri) * ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1974) Royal Shakespeare Company (Janet Suzman) * ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1981) BBC Television Shakespeare (Jane Lapotaire) * ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1983) (Lynn Redgrave) * ''Astro Boy (1980 TV series), Astro Boy'' (1980): "The Return of Queen Cleopatra" (Season 1, Episode 31) * ''Bewitched'': "Samantha's Caesar Salad", Samantha conjures up Cleopatra to try to persuade Julius Caesar to return to his time * ''Cleopatra (1999 film), Cleopatra'' (Leonor Varela) * ''Cleopatra'' (2010) (Sulaf Fawakherji) * ''Cleopatra in Space (TV series), Cleopatra in Space'' (2019), an animated children's series * ''The Cleopatras'' (Michelle Newell) * ''Clone High'': (voiced by Christa Miller) * ''The Danny Thomas Show'': "The Singing Sisters", as Kathy badgers Danny to audition a pair of singing nuns, he tells her "Okay, Cleopatra, get that snake away from me." * ''Doctor Who'': ** "The Pandorica Opens", River Song (Doctor Who), River Song poses as Cleopatra several decades after her death ** "The Husbands of River Song", it is implied that Doctor (Doctor Who), The Doctor was once married to Cleopatra * ''Fantasy Island'': "My Fair Pharaoh", a woman (Joan Collins) wants to be Cleopatra * ''General Electric Theater'': "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Piper Laurie) * ''Giulio Cesare'' (1990) (Susan Larson) * ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'': "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Geneviève Bujold) * ''Histeria!'' (voiced by Tress MacNeille) * ''Horrible Histories (2009 TV series), Horrible Histories'' (Martha Howe-Douglas/Kathryn Drysdale) * ''Imperium: Augustus'' (Anna Valle) * ''Julius Caesar (TV miniseries), Julius Caesar'' (Samuela Sardo) * ''Legends of the Hidden Temple'': "The Snake Bracelet of Cleopatra" * ''Meeting of Minds'': "Queen Cleopatra/Theodore Roosevelt/Thomas Aquinas/Thomas Paine" (Jayne Meadows) * ''The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968), The Morecambe & Wise Show'': "Season 5, Episode 5" (Glenda Jackson) * ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' ** Banana Formula pt. 6 (TBA) ** ''The Mr. Peabody and Sherman Show'' (Grey Griffin) * ''Mujeres Insólitas'': "La Sierpe del Nilo" (Rocío Dúrcal) * ''The New Addams Family'': "Cleopatra, Green of the Nile" (Adam Behr and Nicholas Podbrey) * ''Producers' Showcase'': "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Claire Bloom) * ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica'': Episode 11 * ''Rome (TV series), Rome'' (2005–07) (Lyndsey Marshal) * ''The Spread of the Eagle'' (1963) (TV series) (Mary Morris) * ''The Supersizers...'': "The Supersizers Eat...Ancient Rome" (Sue Perkins) * ''Teen Angel (1997 TV series), Teen Angel'': "Honest Abe and Popular Steve" (Sue Giosa) * ''You Are There (series), You Are There'': "The Death of Cleopatra" (Kim Stanley) * ''Xena: Warrior Princess'': ** "King of Assassins" (Gina Torres) ** "Antony & Cleopatra" (Jo Davidson/Lucy Lawless) * Music video ''Horrible Histories Song - RA RA Cleopatra'' CBBC (TV channel), CBBC (about 2009)

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