He was a famous Dutch painter who was raised in Dronrijp, in the Netherlands. 1865, present whereabouts unknown) may be an oil sketch for The Mets picture. 2, notes that 'Egyptian at his Door' (ca. This tiny painting is like a photographic close up of the earring in question. Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born on Januand died on June 25, 1912. Victorians in Togas: Paintings by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema from the Collection of Allen Funt. To win a wager with him that she can produce the most expensive meal on earth, she dissolves one of her pearl earrings in a glass of wine before drinking it. Recorded as a femme fatale (in truth she was plain but extremely witty, charming, and with ‘sweetness in the tones of her voice’ (Plutarch)), Roman historians later exonerated their soldiers’ ineffectiveness in her presence by accusing her of a seductive extravagance impossible to resist.Īpart from her purported death from an asp bite, one of the most popular scenes of Cleopatra in art shows the high dramatic moment of their narrative when she is seated at a banquet table with Mark Antony. Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius, 83 BC–30 BC), a Roman politician and general, loses his head to the Egyptian queen Cleopatra (69 BC– 30 BC) when he first observes her beauty. Lawrence Alma-Tadema made two large-scale versions of The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 41 BC, taking his inspiration from Shakespeare’s play, rather than historic texts.
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