De stervende Cleopatra

c. 1520 - c. 1524 · Painting

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Amsterdam, Holland

Sal0.6 · Renaissance in the Netherlands

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About the painting

Around 1520, Jan van Scorel travelled to Venice, Jerusalem and Rome, and became keeper of the papal collections in the Vatican. An antique statue there probably served as the inspiration for this painting. Queen Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt, committed suicide by inducing a snake to bite her. Scorel depicts her nude and with pronounced musculature, in the throes of succumbing to the venom.

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Oplysninger

Inventarnummer: SK-A-2843

What it shows

Cleopatra VII (koningin van Egypte)Death of Cleopatra: she commits suicide by holding to her breast an asp, which she has taken from a basket of figs

I kataloget

Malerier Olie Renæssancen 1500-tallet

Ankomster og afgange

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