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Cleopatra - Life to Death Busts
David Lewis Baker
One of a series of surreal/expressionist/symbolist works which develop the idea of 'janic portraits' (the myth of Janus = two faces on the same body) and also explore famly relationships. These were originally acrylics, but have been considerably altered digitally to create these melting and surreal overlapping effects. [Cleopatra reigned as Pharaoh during the Ptolemaic period and was not of true Egyptian lineage. She was descended from Macedonians, who had ruled Egypt ever since the death of Alexander the Great, some 250 years earlier, Cleopatra VII was born to Ptolemy XII in 69 B.C. She came to the throne when she was 17 years old in 51 B.C. It's thought that she ruled jointly with her father, then after he died, with her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII. It is said that Cleopatra captivated Julius Caesar when he came to Alexandria and in order to assume sole power over Egypt she asked for his assistence, which he willingly gave. However, their relationship was doomed and when her liaison with Mark Anthony, also ended disastrously, and Cleopatra, committed suicide in 30 BC. Cleopatra was the last female to be called pharaoh, and her demise also brought to an end 3,000 years of dynastic rule.]http://www.ancientnile.co.uk/pharaohs-women.php
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