File:‘Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers after the Death of Mark Antony’ Bernard Duvivier 1789.jpg
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[edit]Description‘Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers after the Death of Mark Antony’ Bernard Duvivier 1789.jpg |
English: The subject of this painting is a rarely-depicted moment in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. In Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony, Antony dies of a self-inflicted wound in Cleopatra’s “monument”, a fortified tomb in which the Eqyptian queen had barricaded herself. Several of Caesar Augustus’s men, seeking to capture Cleopatra alive, enter the monument just as she is about to stab herself. The soldier Proculeius prevents Cleopatra’s suicide by seizing and then admonishing her:
“For shame Cleopatra, you wrong yourself and Caesar much who would rob him of so fair an occasion for showing clemency, and would make the world believe the most gentle of commanders to be a faithless and implacable enemy.” Although Caesar’s motive in ordering his soldiers to save Cleopatra is questionable, it suggests that the theme of this painting is the noble virtue of mercy. Duvivier initially studied in his natïve Bruges, but by 1783 he was a student at the Paris Academie, where in 1785, at age 23, he received second prize in the annual Prix de Rome competition for his painting Death of Camilla. Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers is almost identical in format and size to the earlier painting; it is likely that this painting was an assignment for one of the preliminary rounds in another Prix de Rome competition. From the placard: Memorial Art Galleryالعربية: كليوباترا في قبضة الجنود الرومان بعد وفاة مارك أنطوني لوحة بريشة الفنان برنارد دوفيفييه 1789 |
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Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/rverc/4138690128 |
Author | Bernard Duvivier |
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. | |
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Camera model | DSC-W150 |
Exposure time | 1/8 sec (0.125) |
F-number | f/3.5 |
ISO speed rating | 400 |
Date and time of data generation | 16:06, 24 October 2009 |
Lens focal length | 5.8 mm |
Orientation | Normal |
File change date and time | 16:06, 24 October 2009 |
Y and C positioning | Co-sited |
Exposure Program | Normal program |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Date and time of digitizing | 16:06, 24 October 2009 |
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Image compression mode | 4 |
APEX exposure bias | 0.7 |
Maximum land aperture | 3.4375 APEX (f/3.29) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |