Cleopatra Before CaesarJean-Léon Gérôme
oil on canvas
1866
After being driven from the palace in Alexandria by her brother/husband Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra meets Julius Caesar by emerging from a roll of carpet.
After being driven from the palace in Alexandria by her brother/husband Ptolemy XIII, Cleopatra meets Julius Caesar by emerging from a roll of carpet.
"It was one of the more unusual homecomings in history. Many queens have risen from obscurity, but Cleopatra is the only one to have emerged on the world stage from inside a sturdy sack, the kind of bag into which one customarily stuffed rolls of papyrus or transported a small fortune in gold."
~From pg 16 of Stacy Schiff's book Cleopatra: A Life
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