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i need someone who is good at the history of art to write a five pages essay the history of Cleopatra and hot its connected to art. MLA style, five credible sources or more.
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Reflections on Cleopatra as Art and History
The Romans were right when they quipped ars longa, vita brevia; art is long, life is short.
Art is the most authentic evidence we have when it comes to our analysis of a life lived. When
you look at a DaVinci, Monet, Degas, you are not only mesmerized by the beauty within, but
also immersed into its history. Speaking of beauty, one cannot fail to think about Cleopatra,
queen of the ages. One would imagine Cleopatra sitting or standing somewhere, effortlessly
going about her regal undertakings, surrounding her all the trappings of her time; she found a
way into immortality. One can even go to the extent of deducing that Cleopatra will endure long
even after history has come to an end. She is history herself. She is art incarnate. The very
embodiment of the past, present, and the future.
History tells us of Cleopatra, a beautiful, highly educated woman who had an aptitude for
learning and schooled in physics, alchemy, and astronomy, and could speak many languages.
Plutarch (Gadrner et al 98), the Greek essayist and biographer tells us of Cleopatra’s prowess in
linguistics and compares it to a stringed instrument with many voices. The ancient literary
sources about Cleopatra are incredibly diminished. It has been the general rule of thumb that
women are not treated fairly in ancient history, and as such there is no body of work particularly
concerned of the queen, nor is there a highly significant contemporary source. Plutarch’s
rendition of the life of Marcus Antonius is the most proximal to a precise tale about the queen,
although penned a century post her demise and is bounded in its scope. Following Plutarch's
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work is the seminal magnus opus of Roman History of Cassius Dio, the only unbroken extant
history of Cleopatra’s epoch. Cleopatra is regularly caricatured as a seductress who destroyed the
men in her life and ruined her kingdom, a faulty painting of her, which is, to a greater extent the
consequence of skillfully eloquent opponents and historiography coined by her male naysayers.
To tell her story is to tell the history of art and the converse rings true. Art history, like
Cleopatra, is misunderstood.
Whilst she was an able administrator and military leader, a linguist who had command of
several languages, and a scholar who was published, she also was the last true monarch of her
kingdom, and her humiliating defeat by the Romans led to the destruction of her renown. She sat
on the throne twent...