How Cleopatra became a canvas for society's anxieties

All of our fears about women in power, female sexuality, and race have been projected onto this historical figure

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Venus in the City: Alma-Tadema's Female Figures and the Creation of an Erotic Geography — Canvas Journal

This Will Show Your Lordship What a Woman Can Do”: Artemisia's Rediscovered Cleopatra

Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered — The Exploress

Full article: Picturing Ekphrasis: Image and Text in Shakespeare Painting

Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered — The Exploress

Mantegna's Fictive Bronze Judith and Dido: Beyond Exemplarity - Fletcher - 2014 - Art History - Wiley Online Library

To whom does Cleopatra belong? - L'Orient Today

Spaniard and Indian Produce a Mestizo, attributed to Juan Rodríguez Juárez

Cleopatra: She Came, She Saw, She Conquered — The Exploress