Posthumous_painted_portrait_of_Cleopatra_VII_of_Egypt,_from_Herculaneum,_Italy.jpg
Summary
Description Posthumous painted portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Herculaneum, Italy.jpg |
English:
Dr. Joann Fletcher (
Cleopatra the Great: the Woman Behind the Legend
, New York: Harper, 2008, plates between pp. 246-247) writes the following in description of this painting:
Fletcher describes the painting further on page 87:
The painting is also described in Susan Walker and Peter Higgs (2001), Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ISBN 9780691088358 . Walker and Higgs (2001: pp. 314-315) date the painting from Herculaneum as belonging to the 1st century AD, contiguous with the Pompeian Third Style, and describe it as thus:
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Date | 1st century AD, i.e. before the destruction of Herculaneum by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. |
Source |
Walker, Susan; Higgs, Peter (2001).
Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
ISBN
9780691088358
, p. 314.
Previous versions were scanned from Fletcher, Joann. (2008). Cleopatra the Great: The Woman Behind the Legend . New York: Harper. ISBN 978-0-06-058558-7 . Plates between pp. 246-247. |
Author | Ancient Roman artist from Herculaneum |
Camera location | 38° 49′ 54.94″ N, 77° 18′ 26.46″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 38.831928; -77.307350 |
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