page_title: List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra
section_title: Art
hierarchical_section_title: List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra / Art
caption_attribution_description: English: 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. It is most likely a depiction of Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt as Venus Genetrix, with her son Caesarion as a cupid. It was most likely painted in conjunction with the September 46 BC foundation of the Temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum Iulium (i.e. Forum of Caesar) by Julius Caesar, where he erected a gilded statue depicting Queen Cleopatra (as described by Appian in his 2nd-century AD Bella Civilia). Further information on this painting and the identification as Cleopatra VII and Caesarion in it can be found on page 175 in the following source: * Roller, Duane W. (2010). Cleopatra: a biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195365535. For further photographs and explanation, see "VII.16.22 Pompeii. Casa di Fabio Rufo or House of M Fabius Rufus."
context_page_description: Cleopatra has been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art. Only those with Wikipedia articles are cited.
context_section_description: Robert K. Abbett: cover of Cleopatra (1962)
  Lawrence Alma-Tadema: "Cleopatra" (1875)
  "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra" (1883)
  Ivan Argunov: "Умирающая Клеопатра" (1749)
  Francesco Xanto Avelli: "Marco Antonio e Cleopatra" (1542) 
  Gillian Ayres: "Antony and Cleopatra" (1982)
  Bartolommeo Bandinelli: "Cleopatra"
  Francesco Baratta: "Cleopatra" 
  François Barois: "Cléopâtre mourant" (1700)
  Pompeo Batoni: "Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente" (1763)
  Hans Sebald Beham: "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1529) 
  Gyula Benczúr: "Kleopátra" (1911)
  Claude Bertin: "Cléopâtre se suicide" (c. 1697)
  Jacques Blanchard: "La mort de Cléopâtre" (c. 1620)
  Arnold Böcklin "Kleopatra" (1872)
  Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi "Cleopatra" (1519–1522)
  Boucicaut Master: "Cléopâtre a présenté avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant" (c. 1415) 
  "Le tombeau de Marc Antony et de Cléopâtre" (c. 1415) 
  Frederick Arthur Bridgman: "Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae" (1896)
  "Cleopatra's Barge"
  Frank Brunner: "Cleopatra" (1976)
  Winifred Brunton: "Queen Cleopatra VII"
  Alexandre Cabanel: "Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condangés à mort" (1887)
  Guido Cagnacci: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1658)
  "La morte di Cleopatra" (1660)
  Denis Calvaert: "De dood van Cleopatra" (1590)
  Andrea Casali: "Antonio e Cleopatra" 
  André Castaigne: "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1911)
  Chelsea Porcelain: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1760) 
  Demetre Chiparus: "Cleopatra" (c. 1925)
  Giovanni Battista Cipriani: "Cleopatra" after Benvenuto Cellini 
  Auguste Clésinger: "Cléopâtre" 
  Henry Clive, "Cleopatra" (1929) (1946)
  John Collier: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1890)
  Michel Corneille "Cléopâtre et l'aspic" (1650–1660)
  Donato Creti: "Cleopatra" (1710)
  Pietro da Cortona: "Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt" ("Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto") (1637)
  Salvador Dalí: "Cesare y Cleopatra" (1972)
  "La muerte de Cleopatra" (1975)
  "Les Amoureux Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1979)
  Leonardo da Pistoia: "Cleopatra" 
  George and Edward Dalziel: "Cleopatra" (1864) after Frederick Sandys 
  Jacopo de' Barbari: "Cleopatra" (c. 1508) 
  Jan de Bray: "Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra" (1669)
  Eugène Delacroix: "Cléopâtre et le paysan" (1838)
  Gerard de Lairesse: "La banquet de Cléopâtre" (1680)
  Jean François de Troy: "La mort de Cléopâtre" 
  Archie Dickens: "Cleopatra" (1990)
  Erté: cover for the February 1927 Harper's Bazaar 
  Thomas Francis Dicksee: "Cleopatra" (1876)
  Piero di Cosimo: "Cleopatra" (1485–1490)
  Domenichino: "La morte di Cleopatra"
  Jean-Bernard Duvivier: "Cléopâtre" (1789)
  Edward Mason Eggleston: "Cleopatra" (1934)
  Adrian Feint: "Anthony and Cleopatra"
  Harrison Fisher: "Cleopatra" (1907) 
  Lavinia Fontana: "Cleopatra" (1585)
  Elisabeth Frink: "Anthony and Cleopatra" (1982), modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon
  Felice Ficherelli: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1650)
  "Scene dalla vita di Cleopatra" silver basin (1620–1625) after Bernardo Strozzi 
  Margaret Foley: "Cleopatra"
  Giacomo Francia: "Cleopatra"
  Francesco Furini: "La morte di Cleopatra" 
  Louis Gauffier: "Cléopâtre et Octavian" (1788)
  Cesare Gennari: "Cleopatra" (1663)
  Artemisia Gentileschi: "Cleopatra" (1621–1622)
  "Cleopatra" (1630)
  Orazio Gentileschi: "Cleopatra"
  Jean-Léon Gérôme: "Cléopâtre et César" (1866)
  Giampietrino: "Cleopatra" (c. 1525)
  "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1530)
  Achille Glisenti: "La morte di Cleopatra" (1878)
  Luca Giordano: "Cleopatra" (c. 1700)
  Pierre Gobert: "La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre" 
  Thomas Ridgeway Gould: "Cleopatra" (1873) 
  Guercino: "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: "Het Feest van Cleopatra" 
  Howard David Johnson: "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt" 
  Jacob Jordaens: "Het Feest van Cleopatra" (1653)
  Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
  Giovanni Lanfranco: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1632–1633)
  Gregorio Lazzarini: "Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza"
  Edmonia Lewis: "The Death of Cleopatra" (1876)
  Johann Liss: "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1622–1624)
  Claude Lorrain:
caption: 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. It is most likely a depiction of Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt as Venus Genetrix, with her son Caesarion as a cupid. It was most likely painted in conjunction with the September 46 BC foundation  of the Temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum of Caesar by Julius Caesar, where he erected a gilded statue depicting Queen Cleopatra (as described by Appian and Dio Cassius).
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