Private collection in Italy

Acrylics painting on panel inspired by the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII and her history during the Ptolemaic period. In private collection.

Cleopatra VII is the symbol of Ptolemaic dynasty at the end of the millenary history of pharaohs empire, when Rome and Egypt started to get culturally mixed.

She committed suicide getting bitten by a snake after having triggered mechanisms that she couldn’t longer control and to guarantee the governmental stability of her posterity.

She was the last sovereign of the Ptolemaic dynasty to reign in Egypt and also the last of the entire Hellenistic age, whose end coincided with her death.

A strong and independent woman, she carried an expansive and centralizing policy, despite the continuous advance of the hegemony of the Roman Republic in the Mediterranean Sea; Cleopatra managed, in fact, to relate effectively with Rome, thanks also to the personal relationship she established with two important Roman generals, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, and played a central role in the last Republican civil war (44-31 BC), which led at the birth of the Roman Empire on the initiative of Octavian Augustus.