From 1299 to 1 BCE
20th century conceptions of Cleopatra were that she was passionate, scheming, or cruel, or all three. Here she has just tested a poison on a slave with either very successful or very regrettable consequences.
Marc Antony orates over the body of the slain Julius Caesar. The unhappy looking character on the left is undoubtedly Brutus, one of Caesar's assassins
The meeting of Antony and Cleopatra has been a favorite subject of historical depictions. Here the Roman sporting a beard looks at a coy Cleopatra on her well-appointed barge on the Nile.
