Cultural depictions of Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII and her reign have been the subject of literature, films, plays, television programs, and art.

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Art

Cleopatra as a Goddess; 1st century B.C.

"La morte di Cleopatra" by Cagnacci

Poster for Cleopatra

• "Cleopatra" (1875) and "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra" (1883) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• "Умирающая Клеопатра" (1749) by Ivan Argunov
• "Marco Antonio e Cleopatra" (1542) by Francesco Xanto Avelli
• "Antony and Cleopatra" (1982) by Gillian Ayres
• "Cleopatra" by Bartolommeo Bandinelli
• "Cleopatra" by Francesco Baratta the elder
• "Cléopâtre mourant" (1700) by François Barois
• "Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente" (1763) by Pompeo Batoni
• "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1529) by Hans Sebald Beham
• "Kleopátra" (1911) by Gyula Benczúr
• "Cléopâtre se suicide" (c. 1697) by Claude Bertin
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" (c. 1620) by Jacques Blanchard
• "Kleopatra" (1872) by Arnold Böcklin
• "Cleopatra" (1519–1522) by Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi
• "Cléopâtre a présenté avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant" (c. 1415) attributed to the Boucicaut Master
• "Le tombeau de Marc Antony et de Cléopâtre" (c. 1415) attributed to the Boucicaut Master
• "Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae" (1896) and "Cleopatra's Barge" by Frederick Arthur Bridgman
• "Cleopatra" (1976) by Frank Brunner
• "Queen Cleopatra VII" by Winifred Brunton
• "Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condamnés à mort" (1887) by Alexandre Cabanel
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (1658) and "La morte di Cleopatra" (1660) by Guido Cagnacci
• "De dood van Cleopatra" (1590) by Denis Calvaert
• "Antonio e Cleopatra" by Andrea Casali
• "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1911) by André Castaigne
• "The Death of Cleopatra" (1760) Chelsea porcelain factory release
• "Cleopatra" (c. 1925) by Demetre Chiparus
• "Cleopatra" etching by Giovanni Battista Cipriani after a wax model by Benvenuto Cellini
• "Cléopâtre" by Auguste Clésinger
• "The Death of Cleopatra" (1890) by John Collier
• "Cléopâtre et l'aspic" (1650–1660) by Michel Corneille the Elder
• "Cleopatra" (1710) by Donato Creti
• "Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto" (1637) by Pietro da Cortona
• "Cesare y Cleopatra" (1972), "La muerte de Cleopatra" (1975), and "Les Amoureux Antoine et Cléopâtre" (1979) by Salvador Dalí
• "Cleopatra" by Leonardo da Pistoia
• "Cleopatra" (1864) by George and Edward Dalziel from an illustration by Frederick Sandys for Cornhill Magazine
• "Cleopatra" (c. 1508) by Jacopo de' Barbari
• "Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra" (1669) by Jan de Bray
• "Cléopâtre et le paysan" (1838) by Eugène Delacroix
• "La banquet de Cléopâtre" (1680) by Gerard de Lairesse
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" by Jean François de Troy
• "Cleopatra" (1990) by Archie Dickens
• "Cleopatra" (1876) by Thomas Francis Dicksee
• "Cleopatra" (1485–1490) by Piero di Cosimo
• "La morte di Cleopatra" by Domenichino
• "Anthony and Cleopatra" by Adrian Feint
• "Cleopatra" (1585) by Lavinia Fontana
• "Anthony and Cleopatra" (1982) by Elisabeth Frink (modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon)
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (1650) and "Scene dalla vita di Cleopatra" silver basin (1620–1625) from a design by Bernardo Strozzi by Felice Ficherelli
• "Cleopatra" by Margaret Foley
• "Cleopatra" by Giacomo Francia
• "La morte di Cleopatra" by Francesco Furini
• "Cléopâtre et Octavian" (1788) by Louis Gauffier
• "Cleopatra" (1663) by Cesare Gennari
• "Cleopatra" (1621–1622) and "Cleopatra" (1630) by Artemesia Gentileschi
• "Cleopatra" by Orazio Gentileschi
• "Cléopâtre et César" (1866) by Jean-Léon Gérôme
• "Cleopatra" (c. 1525) and "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1530) by Giampietrino
• "Cleopatra" (c. 1700) by Luca Giordano
• "La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre" attributed to Pierre Gobert
• "Cleopatra" (1873) by Thomas Ridgeway Gould
• "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1621) and "La Cleopatra morente" (c. 1648) by Guercino
• "The Death of Cleopatra" (1767) by Gavin Hamilton
• "Der tod der Kleopatra" by Augustin Hirschvogel
• "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt" by Howard David Johnson
• "Het feest van Cleopatra" (1653) by Jacob Jordaens
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" by Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
• "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1632–1633) by Giovanni Lanfranco
• "Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza" by Gregorio Lazzarini
• "The Death of Cleopatra" (1876) by Edmonia Lewis
• "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1622–1624) by Johann Liss
• "Le débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse" (1642–1643) by Claude Lorrain
• "La muerte de Cleopatra" (1881) by Juan Luna
• "Cleopatra" by Angelica Kauffmann
• "Der tod der Kleopatra" (1875) and "Die Niljagd der Kleopatra" (1883–1884) by Hans Makart
• "Cleopatra e la perla" (1650) by Carlo Maratta
• "Cleopatra" (c. 1565) by Jan Matsys
• "Baths of Cleopatra, At Alexandria" (1802) by Luigi Mayer (commissioned by Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet)
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1713) by Giuseppe Mazzuoli
• "La morte di Cleopatra" by Sebastiano Mazzoni
• "Antony and Cleopatra" (1973) by Angus McBride
• "Augustus und Kleopatra" (1761) by Anton Raphael Mengs
• "Cleopatra" (1533–1534) by Michelangelo
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1670) by Pierre Mignard
• "Cléopâtre" (c. 1887) by Gustave Moreau
• "De dood van Cleopatra" (1673) by Caspar Netscher
• "Cleopatra" by Terese Nielsen
• "Cleopatra" by Theodor Pallady
• "Cleopatra" (1990) by Michael Parkes
• "Cleopatra" (1917) by Maxfield Parrish
• "La morte di Cleopatra" by Gianfrancesco Penni
• "The Death of Cleopatra" by Valentine Cameron Prinsep
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1525) by Domenico Puligo
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (1520–1525) by Marcantonio Raimondi
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1796–1799) by Jean-Baptiste Regnault
• "Studie van een naakt vrouw als Cleopatra" (c. 1637) by Rembrandt
• "Cleopatra con l'aspide" (1630) and "Cleopatra" (1635–1640) by Guido Reni
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (c. 1670) by Pietro Ricchi
• "La morte di Cleopatra" by Sebastiano Ricci
• "Il suicidio di Cleopatra" (1552) by Domenico Riccio
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" by Antoine Rivalz
• "La mort de Cléopâtre" (1874) by Jean-André Rixens
• "La morte di Cleopatra" (1531–1532) lunette by Girolamo Romani
• "Cleopatra" by Mimmo Rotella
• "Cleopatra" (1615) by Peter Paul Rubens
• "Cléopâtre" by School of Fontainebleau artist
• "Cléopâtre" (1754) by School of Fontainebleau artist
• "Cleopatra" by Elisabetta Sirani
• "Cleopatra" by Andrea Solari
• "La morte di Cleopatra" attributed to Leonello Spada
• "Cleopatra" (1858) by Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal (from Mary Cowden Clarke's World Noted Women)
• "Cleopatra" (1630) by Massimo Stanzione
• "Cleopatra" (1869) by William Wetmore Story
• "Cléopâtre découvert par Rodogune d'avoir empoisonné la coupe nuptial" (1791) by Jean-Joseph Taillasson
• "Il banchetto di Cleopatra" (1743–1744) (later etching by Jean-Honoré Fragonard) and "Incontro di Antonio e Cleopatra" (1746–1747) by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
• "Queen Cleopatra" attributed to Timotheus
• "Cleopatra" by Michele Tosini
• "Il banchetto di Marco Antonio" (1702) by Francesco Trevisani
• "La morte di Antonio e Cleopatra" (1630–1635) and "La morte di Cleopatra" (1640) by Alessandro Turchi
• "Het verhaal van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra" (1677) and "Het verhaal van Caesar en Cleopatra" (1680) tapestry designs by Justus van Egmont
• "De dood van Cleopatra" (1694) by Willem van Mieris
• "De stervende Cleopatra" (c. 1523) by Jan van Scorel
• "Cleopatra" by Alessandro Varotari
• "Antonio e Cleopatra" by Vecchietta
• "Cléopâtre se donnant la mort" (c. 1640) by Claude Vignon
• "Les suicides d'Antoine et Cléopâtre" (12th Cent) from Vincent of Beauvais's Le Miroir Historial
• "Cleopatra" (1888) by John William Waterhouse
• "Cleopatra" and "The Death of Cleopatra" (1889) by Richard Caton Woodville (for The Illustrated London News)

Astronomy

• Johann Palisa named 216 Kleopatra after Cleopatra

Ballet

• Antony et Cléopâtre (1765) by Jean-Georges Noverre
• Antony et Cléopâtre (1808) by Jean-Pierre Aumer, composed by Rodolphe Kreutzer
• Nuit d'Egypte (1908) by Michel Fokine, composed by Anton Arensky
  • restaged as Cléopâtre (1909) by Sergei Diaghilev, starring Ida Rubinstein, costumed by Léon Bakst
• One More Gaudy Night (1961) by Martha Graham, composed by Halim El-Dabh
• Cleopatra (2000) by Ben Stevenson for the Houston Ballet
• Cleopatra (2011) by David Nixon, composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, for Northern Ballet

Celebrities

• Sandra Bernhard posed as Cleopatra for the August 1989 cover of Spy

Comics

• Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
• Asterix and Cleopatra by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo
• Cleopatra by Vicente Segrelles
• Legion of the Supernatural, #3 by Rick Remender and Bret Blevins
• Sheba by Walter Crane
• Tales of Suspense #44 by Robert Bernstein: Tony Stark follows The Mad Pharaoh to ancient Egypt, and aids Cleopatra

Film

Theda Bara in Cleopatra

Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra

Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra

• Antony and Cleopatra (1908) (Florence Lawrence)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1924) (Ethel Teare)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972) (Hildegarde Neil)
• Asterix and Cleopatra (Micheline Dax)
• Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (Diane Neal and Monica Bellucci)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh)
• Carry On Cleo (Amanda Barrie)
• Cleobatra (1943) (Amina Rizk)
• Cleopatra (1917) (Theda Bara)
• Cleopatra (1934) (Claudette Colbert)
• Cleopatra (1963) (Elizabeth Taylor)
• Cleopatra (1970) (Chinatsu Nakayama)
• Cleopatra (1970) (Viva)
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt (1912) (Helen Gardner)
• Cléopâtre (1899) (Jeanne d'Alcy)
• Dante's Inferno (Lorna Low)
• Due notti con Cleopatra (Sophia Loren)
• Giulio Cesare (2006) (Danielle de Niese)
• Highway to Hell (Amy Stiller)
• Munchie Strikes Back (Antonia Dorian)
• The Notorious Cleopatra (Sonora)
• Serpent of the Nile (Rhonda Fleming)
• Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (Virginia Madsen)
• The Story of Mankind (Virginia Mayo)
• Totò e Cleopatra (1963) (Magali Noël)

See also: Cleopatra (Character) imdb.com page

Games

• Anachronism Set 2 includes Cleopatra
• Assassin's Creed II features a statue of the alleged assassin of Cleopatra
• BreakAway's and Impressions's "Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile" (2000)
• Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
• Cleopatra Fortune
• Civilization II
• Civilization III
• Civilization Revolution
• Dante's Inferno
• Kheops Studio's "Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny" (2007)
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Literature

• Cleopatra (1879) by Jacob Abbott
• "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae" (from De mulieribus claris) by Giovanni Boccaccio
• Cleopatra's Heir by Gillian Bradshaw
• Villette by Charlotte Brontë (Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra)
• Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (1935) by Mary Butts
• Kleopatra (1894) by Georg Ebers
• Kleopatra (2001) and Pharaoh (2002) by Karen Essex
• When We Were Gods (2000) by Colin Falconer
• The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1758) by Sarah Fielding
• Cleopatra by Jeffrey K. Gardner
• "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre" (1838) (short story) by Théophile Gautier
• The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George
• Cléopâtre (1847) by Delphine de Girardin
• The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. by Kristiana Gregory
• Cléopâtre (1886) by Henry Gréville
• Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis by H. Rider Haggard
• Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon (1969) by Margaret Carver Leighton
• Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin (1937) by Emil Ludwig
• Caesar: Let the Dice Fly, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough
• Cleopatra's Daughter (2009) by Michelle Moran
• Tros of Samothrace by Talbot Mundy
• Life of Antony by Plutarch
• Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès (1553) by François Rabelais
• The Judgment of Caesar by Steven Saylor
• The Princess and the Pirates by John Maddox Roberts
• The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder

Music

• Tal Bachman's "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" references Cleopatra

Opera

• Cleopatra (1779) by Pasquale Anfossi
• 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 Norman Durkee
• Antoine et Cléopâtre (2006) by Lewis Furey (adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra)
• "Variation de Cléopâtre" (from Faust) by Charles Gounod
• Cleopatra e Cesare (1742) by Carl Heinrich Graun
• Great Caesar (1899) (burlesque) by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens
• Cleopatra's Night by Henry Kimball Hadley
• Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
• Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) (serenata) by Johann Adolph Hasse
• Antonio e Cleopatra (1937) by Gian Francesco Malipiero
• Cléopâtre by Jules-Émile-Frédéric 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

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 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
• Cleopâtre (1750) by Jean-François Marmontel
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Her Tragedy (1639) by Thomas May
• Cléopâtre (1890) by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou
• Antony and Cleopatra (1677) by Charles Sedley
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• 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)
• "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
• "Cleopatra" (1633) by Girolamo Graziani
• "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (from Les Trophées, 1878–1887) by José-Maria de Heredia
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1960) by Ted Hughes
• "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
• "After Reading Antony and Cleopatra" (1890) by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Cleopatra" (1868) by William Wetmore Story
• "Cleopatra" (1864) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1897) by John B. Tabb

Television

Lyndsey Marshal as Cleopatra in Rome

• 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: "The Return of Queen Cleopatra" (Season 1, Episode 31)
• Cleopatra (Leonor Varela)
• Cleopatra (2010) (TV series) (Sulaf Fawakherji)^{[citation needed]}
• Cleopatra (2010) (TV series) (Cyrine Abdelnour)^{[citation needed]}
• The Cleopatras (Michelle Newell)
• Clone High (Christa Miller)
• Doctor Who: "River Song" (Alex Kingston)
• General Electric Theater: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Piper Laurie)
• Giulio Cesare (1990) (Susan Larson)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Caesar and Cleopatra" (Geneviève Bujold)
• Histeria! (Tress MacNeille)
• Imperium: Augustus (Anna Valle)
• 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: "Season 5, Episode 5" (Glenda Jackson)
• 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)
• 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: "Honest Abe and Popular Steve" (Sue Giosa)
• You Are There: "The Death of Cleopatra" (Kim Stanley)
• Xena: Warrior Princess:
  • "King of Assassins" (Gina Torres)
  • "Antony & Cleopatra" (Jo Davidson)
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: in episode 11 as a Puella Magi

See also: Cleopatra (Character) imdb.com page