List of cultural depictions of Cleopatra

Advertising

• Kimberly-Clark: 2010 TV campaign for Poise adult underwear with Whoopi Goldberg as Cleopatra
• Doctor's Associates: Subway 2010 "Five Dollar Foot Long" TV campaign with Ewa Da Cruz as Cleopatra
• Fleet Laboratories: 2011 Summer's Eve TV campaign
• ooVoo: "Arcana Academy" campaign

  Art

• Robert K. Abbett: cover of Cleopatra
• Lawrence Alma-Tadema: "Cleopatra"
• * "The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra"
• Ivan Argunov: "Умирающая Клеопатра"
• Francesco Xanto Avelli: "Marco Antonio e Cleopatra"
• Gillian Ayres: "Antony and Cleopatra"
• Bartolommeo Bandinelli: "Cleopatra"
• Francesco Baratta: "Cleopatra"
• François Barois: "Cléopâtre mourant"
• Pompeo Batoni: "Cleopatra e Marco Antonio morente"
• Hans Sebald Beham: "Der tod der Kleopatra"
• Gyula Benczúr: "Kleopátra"
• Claude Bertin: "Cléopâtre se suicide"
• Jacques Blanchard: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Arnold Böcklin "Kleopatra"
• Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi "Cleopatra"
• Boucicaut Master: "Cléopâtre a présenté avec la tête et membres de son propre enfant"
• * "Le tombeau de Marc Antony et de Cléopâtre"
• Frederick Arthur Bridgman: "Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae"
• * "Cleopatra's Barge"
• Frank Brunner: "Cleopatra"
• Winifred Brunton: "Queen Cleopatra VII"
• Alexandre Cabanel: "Cléopatre essayant des poisons sur des condangés à mort"
• Guido Cagnacci: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• * "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Denis Calvaert: "De dood van Cleopatra"
• Andrea Casali: "Antonio e Cleopatra"
• André Castaigne: "Antoine et Cléopâtre"
• Chelsea Porcelain: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• Demetre Chiparus: "Cleopatra"
• Giovanni Battista Cipriani: "Cleopatra" after Benvenuto Cellini
• Auguste Clésinger: "Cléopâtre"
• Henry Clive, "Cleopatra"
• John Collier: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• Michel Corneille "Cléopâtre et l'aspic"
• Donato Creti: "Cleopatra"
• Pietro da Cortona: "Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt"
• Salvador Dalí: "Cesare y Cleopatra"
• * "La muerte de Cleopatra"
• * "Les Amoureux Antoine et Cléopâtre"
• Leonardo da Pistoia: "Cleopatra"
• George and Edward Dalziel: "Cleopatra" after Frederick Sandys
• Jacopo de' Barbari: "Cleopatra"
• Jan de Bray: "Het banket van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra"
• Eugène Delacroix: "Cléopâtre et le paysan"
• Gerard de Lairesse: "La banquet de Cléopâtre"
• Jean François de Troy: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Archie Dickens: "Cleopatra"
• Erté: cover for the February 1927 Harper's Bazaar
• Thomas Francis Dicksee: "Cleopatra"
• Piero di Cosimo: "Cleopatra"
• Domenichino: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Jean-Bernard Duvivier: "Cléopâtre"
• Edward Mason Eggleston: "Cleopatra"
• Adrian Feint: "Anthony and Cleopatra"
• Harrison Fisher: "Cleopatra"
• Lavinia Fontana: "Cleopatra"
• Elisabeth Frink: "Anthony and Cleopatra", modeled by Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon
• Felice Ficherelli: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• * "Scene dalla vita di Cleopatra" silver basin after Bernardo Strozzi
• Margaret Foley: "Cleopatra"
• Giacomo Francia: "Cleopatra"
• Francesco Furini: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Louis Gauffier: "Cléopâtre et Octavian"
• Cesare Gennari: "Cleopatra"
• Artemisia Gentileschi: "Cleopatra"
• * "Cleopatra"
• Orazio Gentileschi: "Cleopatra"
• Jean-Léon Gérôme: "Cléopâtre et César"
• Giampietrino: "Cleopatra"
• * "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Achille Glisenti: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Luca Giordano: "Cleopatra"
• Pierre Gobert: "La Duchesse du Maine en Cléopâtre"
• Thomas Ridgeway Gould: "Cleopatra"
• Guercino: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra"
• * "La Cleopatra morente"
• Gavin Hamilton: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• Augustin Hirschvogel: "Der tod der Kleopatra"
• Gerard Hoet: "Het Feest van Cleopatra"
• Howard David Johnson: "Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt"
• Jacob Jordaens: "Het Feest van Cleopatra"
• Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Giovanni Lanfranco: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra"
• Gregorio Lazzarini: "Cleopatra o allegoria della Prudenza"
• Edmonia Lewis: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• Johann Liss: "Der tod der Kleopatra"
• Claude Lorrain: "Le débarquement de Cléopâtre à Tarse"
• Juan Luna: "La muerte de Cleopatra"
• Angelica Kauffman: "Cleopatra"
• Hans Makart: "Der tod der Kleopatra"
• * "Die Niljagd der Kleopatra"
• Carlo Maratta: "Cleopatra e la perla"
• Jan Matsys: "Cleopatra"
• Luigi Mayer "Baths of Cleopatra at Alexandria", commissioned by Sir Robert Ainslie, 1st Baronet
• Giuseppe Mazzuoli: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Sebastiano Mazzoni: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• * "Il Banchetto di Cleopatra"
• Angus McBride: "Antony and Cleopatra"
• Anton Raphael Mengs: "Augustus und Kleopatra"
• Michelangelo: "Cleopatra"
• Pierre Mignard: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Gustave Moreau: "Cléopâtre"
• Caspar Netscher: "De dood van Cleopatra"
• Terese Nielsen: "Cleopatra"
• Theodor Pallady: "Cleopatra"
• Michael Parkes: "Cleopatra"
• Maxfield Parrish: "Cleopatra"
• Gianfrancesco Penni: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Johann Georg Platzer: "Antonius und Kleopatra in der Schlacht bei Actium"
• * "Das Gastmal der Kleopatra"
• Valentine Cameron Prinsep: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• Domenico Puligo: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Marcantonio Raimondi: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Rembrandt: "Studie van een naakt vrouw als Cleopatra"
• Guido Reni: "Cleopatra con l'aspide"
• * "Cleopatra"
• Pietro Ricchi: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Sebastiano Ricci: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Domenico Riccio: "Il suicidio di Cleopatra"
• Antoine Rivalz: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Jean-André Rixens: "La mort de Cléopâtre"
• Girolamo Romani: "La morte di Cleopatra" lunette
• Mimmo Rotella: "Cleopatra"
• Peter Paul Rubens: "Cleopatra"
• School of Fontainebleau: "Cléopâtre"
• * "Cléopâtre"
• Elisabetta Sirani: "Cleopatra"
• Andrea Solari: "Cleopatra"
• Leonello Spada: "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Pierre Gustave Eugene Staal: "Cleopatra", from Mary Cowden Clarke's World Noted Women
• Massimo Stanzione: "Cleopatra"
• William Wetmore Story: "Cleopatra"
• Jean-Joseph Taillasson: "Cléopâtre découvert par Rodogune d'avoir empoisonné la coupe nuptial"
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted several works and cycles on Anthony and Cleopatra. The Banquet of Cleopatra is in Melbourne, Australia. Tiepolo returned to the subject a few years later in a scene in his fresco cycle on Anthony and Cleopatra in the Palazzo Labia in Venice. A further large oil Tiepolo version is paired with a Meeting of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony. This is in Arkhangelskoye Palace near Moscow. There are several oil sketch modelli and drawings.
• Timotheus: "Queen Cleopatra"
• Michele Tosini: "Cleopatra"
• Francesco Trevisani: "Il banchetto di Marco Antonio"
• Henry Tresham: "In the Palace in Alexandria", published by the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery dramatizing Antony and Cleopatra
• Alessandro Turchi: "La morte di Antonio e Cleopatra"
• * "La morte di Cleopatra"
• Anthony van Dyck: "Death of Cleopatra VII"
• Justus van Egmont: "Het verhaal van Marcus Antonius en Cleopatra"
• * "Het verhaal van Caesar en Cleopatra" tapestry
• Willem van Mieris: "De dood van Cleopatra"
• Jan van Scorel: "De stervende Cleopatra"
• Alessandro Varotari: "Cleopatra"
• Vecchietta: "Antonio e Cleopatra"
• Claude Vignon: "Cléopâtre se donnant la mort"
• Vincent of Beauvais: "Les suicides d'Antoine et Cléopâtre" from Le Miroir Historial
• John William Waterhouse: "Cleopatra"
• Richard Caton Woodville: "Cleopatra"
• * "The Death of Cleopatra" for The Illustrated London News

  Astronomy

• Johann Palisa named 216 Kleopatra after Cleopatra

  Ballet

• Jean-Pierre Aumer and Rodolphe Kreutzer: Antony et Cléopâtre
• Michel Fokine and Anton Arensky: Nuit d'Egypte
• * restaged as Cléopâtre by Sergei Diaghilev, starring Ida Rubinstein, costumed by Léon Bakst
• Martha Graham and Halim El-Dabh: One More Gaudy Night
• David Nixon and Claude-Michel Schönberg: Cleopatra for the Northern Ballet
• Jean-Georges Noverre: Antony et Cléopâtre
• Ben Stevenson: Cleopatra for the Houston Ballet

  Beauty/Fashion

• Colgate-Palmolive: Cleopatra line of Beauty Cream Soap and lotions

  Celebrities

• Sandra Bernhard posed as Cleopatra for the August 1989 cover of Spy
• Kim Kardashian posed as Cleopatra based on Elizabeth Taylor's film portrayal for a photo spread in the March 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar

  Comics

• Robert Bernstein: Tales of Suspense #44, Tony Stark follows The Mad Pharaoh to ancient Egypt, and aids Cleopatra
• Bret Blevins and Rick Remender: Legion of the Supernatural, #3
• Walter Crane: Sheba
• René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo: Cleopatra is a recurring character in the Asterix comic series.
• Don Marquis: Archy and Mehitabel
• Vicente Segrelles: Cleopatra
• Mike Maihack: Cleopatra in Space

  Documentaries

• Cleopatra, Portrait of a Killer
• Rome's Greatest Battles: Actium

  Educational cultural depictions

• Journey Down The Nile: a film, lecture, and cultural dance program, by Layla Taj

  Film

• Cléopâtre
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
• Cleopatra
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Cleopatra
• Dante's Inferno
• Cleopatra
• Caesar and Cleopatra
• Serpent of the Nile
• Due notti con Cleopatra
• The Story of Mankind
• A Queen for Caesar
• Cleopatra
• Totò e Cleopatra
• Carry On Cleo
• Asterix and Cleopatra
• Cleopatra
• Cleopatra
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Highway to Hell
• Cleopatra
• Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
• Giulio Cesare

Games

• The campaign in Pax Romana: 1. Actium: has a history section that talks about Antony and Cleopatra falling in love, the navy battle in Egypt, and their downfall by suicide. Also, you are required to sink Cleopatra's barge in order to win the campaign.
• Anachronism Set 2 includes Cleopatra
• Assassin's Creed II In the backstory of the game, Cleopatra is included in a list of tyrannical rulers targeted by the assassins. She is killed by a female assassin named Amunet, who assassinates her using an asp to make the queen's death appear to be a suicide.
• Assassin's Creed Origins
• BreakAway's and Impressions's "Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile"
• -Cleopatra appears as an end boss in the final level of the arcade game.
• Cleopatra and the Society of Architects
• Cleopatra Fortune
• Civilization II
• Civilization III
• Civilization VI
• Civilization Revolution
• Dante's Inferno
• Fate/Grand Order Cleopatra is an Assassin class servant. She is the antagonist of a Halloween event, where she wishes to reunite with Caesar and is dismayed to find that he has grown fat.
• Kheops Studio's "Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny"
• Scribblenauts and its sequels.
• Shadow of Rome Iris and Charmian, twins who appear throughout the game who employ the character Sextus and his gladiators, are implied to be working for Cleopatra, even though it's never confirmed. But considering that the game is based around Julius Caeser's assassination, it's highly possible that she is the one who sent them.
• International Game Technology has a series of Cleopatra slot machines.

  Literature

• Jacob Abbott: Cleopatra
• Giovanni Boccaccio: "Cleopatrae, Aegypti Reginae"
• Gillian Bradshaw: Cleopatra's Heir
• Charlotte Brontë: Villette, Lucy is mortified at seeing a semi-nude painting of Cleopatra
• Pat Brown : The Murder of Cleopatra: History's Greatest Cold Case
• Mary Butts: Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra
• Jeffrey K. Gardner: Cleopatra
• Georg Ebers: Kleopatra
• Karen Essex: Kleopatra and Pharaoh
• Colin Falconer: When We Were Gods
• Sarah Fielding: The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia
• Théophile Gautier: "Un Nuit de Cléopâtre"
• Margaret George: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
• Delphine de Girardin: Cléopâtre
• Kristiana Gregory: The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C.
• Henry Gréville: Cléopâtre
• H. Rider Haggard: Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis
• Margaret Carver Leighton: Cleopatra: Sister of the Moon
• Michael Livingston: The Shards of Heaven
• Emil Ludwig: Kleopatra: Geschichte einer Königin
• Colleen McCullough: Caesar: Let the Dice Fly, The October Horse, and Antony and Cleopatra
• Michelle Moran: Cleopatra's Daughter
• Talbot Mundy: Tros of Samothrace
• Plutarch: Life of Antony
• François Rabelais: Cléopâtre dans l'Hadès
• Steven Saylor: The Judgment of Caesar
• Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra: A Life
• John Maddox Roberts: The Princess and the Pirates
• Thornton Wilder: The Ides of March

  Music

• Tal Bachman's "She's So High" references Cleopatra
• Charles Griffes's "Cleopatra to the Asp"
• Charlie Sexton's "Impressed" references Antony and Cleopatra
• Danny Schmidt's "Cleopatra"
• Spin Doctors's "Cleopatra's Cat"
• Sophie Tucker's "Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band"
• Thompson Twins's "Lies" references Cleopatra
• Adam and the Ants's "Cleopatra" from Dirk Wears White Sox; later covered by Elastica
• Frank Ocean's "Pyramids" extensively references Cleopatra
• Epic Rap Battles of History's "Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe"
• Katy Perry's video for "Dark Horse" features an Ancient Egyptian theme, with her playing "Katy-Patra"
• Madonna's "Like it Or Not" references Cleopatra
• The Lumineers' Cleopatra. The album cover is of Theda Bara in Cleopatra
• Zico's video for "Eureka" features him being imprisoned by Cleopatra
• Cleopatra's "Cleopatra's Theme", from the album Comin' Atcha.
• The Engineers' Drinking Song has a verse that lampoons the relationship between Cleopatra and Julius Caesar
• "That's What Love Is" from the 1964 film Surf Party references Cleopatra

  Opera

• Cleopatra by Pasquale Anfossi
• Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber
• La Mort de Cléopâtre by Hector Berlioz
• Antoine et Cléopâtre by Emmanuel Bondeville
• Cleopatra by George Whitefield Chadwick
• La Cleopatra by Domenico Cimarosa
• Omnium by Norman Durkee
• Antoine et Cléopâtre by Lewis Furey
• "Variation de Cléopâtre" by Charles Gounod
• Cleopatra e Cesare by Carl Heinrich Graun
• Great Caesar by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens
• Cleopatra's Night by Henry Kimball Hadley
• Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
• Antonio e Cleopatra by Johann Adolph Hasse
• Antonio e Cleopatra by Gian Francesco Malipiero
• Cléopâtre by Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet
• Die unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten by Johann Mattheson
• Antonio e Cleopatra by Alessandro Scarlatti
• Die Perlen der Kleopatra by Oscar Straus

  Plays

• Caesar's Revenge by Anonymous
• The False One by Francis Beaumont and Philip Massinger
• Caesar in Egypt by Colley Cibber
• Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel
• All for Love by John Dryden
• Marc-Antoine by Robert Garnier
• Harmachio by H. Rider Haggard
• Cléopâtre Captive by Étienne Jodelle
• Cleopatra by Daniel Casper von Lohenstein
• Cléopâtre by Jean Mairet
• Cleopâtre by Jean-François Marmontel
• Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, Her Tragedy by Thomas May
• Cléopâtre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou
• Antony and Cleopatra by Charles Sedley
• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
• Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
• The Death of Cleopatra by Ahmed Shawqi
• The Tragedy of Antonie by Mary Sidney

  Poetry

• "Dead Cleopatra Lies in a Crystal Casket" by Conrad Aiken
• "Cerchio II, Canto V" by Dante Alighieri
• "Клеопатра" by Anna Akhmatova
• "Cléopâtre" by Isaac de Benserade
• "Cleopatrie Martiris, Egipti Regine" by Geoffrey Chaucer
• "Cleopatra" by Robert Crawford
• "La Cleopatra" by Girolamo Graziani
• "Antoine et Cléopâtre" by José-Maria de Heredia
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" by Ted Hughes
• "Antony and Cleopatra" by William Haines Lytle
• "Au jardin de l’infante, Cléopâtre" by Albert Samain
• "Early in the Morning" by Louis Simpson
• "After Reading Antony and Cleopatra" by Robert Louis Stevenson
• "Cleopatra" by William Wetmore Story
• "Cleopatra" by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• "Cleopatra to the Asp" by John B. Tabb

  Television

• Antonio e Cleopatra
• Antony and Cleopatra Royal Shakespeare Company
• Antony and Cleopatra BBC Television Shakespeare
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Astro Boy: "The Return of Queen Cleopatra"
• Bewitched: "Samantha's Caesar Salad", Samantha conjures up Cleopatra to try to persuade Julius Caesar to return to his time
• Cleopatra
• Cleopatra
• Cleopatra in Space, an animated children's series
• The Cleopatras
• Clone High:
• The Danny Thomas Show: "The Singing Sisters", as Kathy badgers Danny to audition a pair of singing nuns, he tells her "Okay, Cleopatra, get that snake away from me."
• Doctor Who:
• * "The Pandorica Opens", River Song poses as Cleopatra several decades after her death
• * "The Husbands of River Song", it is implied that The Doctor was once married to Cleopatra
• Fantasy Island: "My Fair Pharaoh", a woman wants to be Cleopatra
• General Electric Theater: "Caesar and Cleopatra"
• Giulio Cesare
• Hallmark Hall of Fame: "Caesar and Cleopatra"
• Histeria!
• Horrible Histories
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• Julius Caesar
• Legends of the Hidden Temple: "The Snake Bracelet of Cleopatra"
• Meeting of Minds: "Queen Cleopatra/Theodore Roosevelt/Thomas Aquinas/Thomas Paine"
• The Morecambe & Wise Show: "Season 5, Episode 5"
• Mujeres Insólitas: "La Sierpe del Nilo"
• The New Addams Family: "Cleopatra, Green of the Nile"
• Producers' Showcase: "Caesar and Cleopatra"
• Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Episode 11
• Rome
• The Spread of the Eagle
• The Supersizers...: "The Supersizers Eat...Ancient Rome"
• Teen Angel: "Honest Abe and Popular Steve"
• You Are There: "The Death of Cleopatra"
• ':
• * "King of Assassins"
• * "Antony & Cleopatra"
• Music video Horrible Histories Song - RA RA Cleopatra CBBC

  Tobacco

• Cleopatra cigarettes