List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra

Cleopatra has frequently been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art. Only those with Wikipedia articles are cited.

Left image: Cleopatra VII bust in the Altes Museum, Antikensammlung Berlin, Roman artwork, 1st century BC
Right: bust of Cleopatra VII, dated 40–30 BC, Vatican Museums, showing her with a 'melon' hairstyle and Hellenistic royal diadem worn over her head

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Art

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. 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).
An engraving depicting Cleopatra VII by French artist Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648–1711), based on a medallion of Cleopatra dated to the Hellenistic period of antiquity
La morte di Cleopatra by Cagnacci
Cleopatra Testing Poisons on Condemned Prisoners by Alexandre Cabanel (1887).
Poster for the film Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara
The Triumph of Cleopatra, by William Etty, 1821, now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
The Banquet of Cleopatra, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1744, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne[4]The Banquet of Cleopatra was a frequently used subject in art, mainly of the Baroque period.
Cleopatra, 1934 calendar art by Edward M. Eggleston.

Astronomy

Ballet

The 1909 Cléopâtre costume designed by Léon Bakst for Ida Rubinstein.

Beauty and fashion

Celebrities

Comics

Documentaries

Educational cultural depictions

Layla Taj in Wings of Isis, part of Journey Down the Nile, performed under the auspices of The Egyptian Cultural Performing Arts Society
  • Journey Down The Nile: a film, lecture, and cultural dance program, by Layla Taj

Film

Theda Bara in Cleopatra (1917)
Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934)
Vivien Leigh in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963)
The headdress for Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra (1963). This film's costume design garnered an Oscar for Irene Sharaff.

Games

Literature

Music

Madonna on a throne during the entrance of the 2012 Super Bowl Halftime Show, in a Cleopatra-inspired theme and outfit[58]

Opera

Plays

Poetry

Television

Tobacco

References

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