Venus_and_Cupid_from_the_House_of_Marcus_Fabius_Rufus_at_Pompeii,_most_likely_a_depiction_of_Cleopatra_VII_(full_view).jpg
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Description Venus and Cupid from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii, most likely a depiction of Cleopatra VII (full view).jpg |
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 in the Roman Forum by Julius Caesar, where he erected a gilded statue depicting Queen Cleopatra (as described by Appian and Dio Cassius). For a close-up view of the faces of Cleopatra and Caesarion, see
this image here
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Roller, Duane W. (2010). Cleopatra: a biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195365535 . |
Date | Middle of the 1st century BC |
Source | Walker, Susan. "Cleopatra in Pompei?" in Papers of the British School at Rome , 76 (2008), pp. 35-46 and 345-8. |
Author | Anonymous, ancient Roman wall painter at Pompeii |
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