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Notes on video lecture:
Tiepolo´s Cleopatra: Agency in Paint
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 23, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Africans, satins, viewer, pearl, 140, Lucan, Anthony, facial, greyhound, lap, subjugated, daughters, helmet, extravagant, body, back, opulence, dogs, Alexandria, dissolving, bodice, coins, blond, musicians, control, Banquet, vice, darker, points
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Tiepolo's of Cleopatra, 1744
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set in the Palace of the Pharaohs in Alexandria around BC
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it's about a competition that Cleopatra made with her husband Marc
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a bet about who was the most and therefore the most powerful regent in Rome of the day
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Cleopatra wagered that she could spend the equivalent of 80,000 pounds of gold on one feast
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after everyone had finished the meal, to further emphasize the she emphasized over the resources of empire, Cleopatra took off one of the pearls she was wearing, and dissolved it in the wine in her glass
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the story of the of the pearl appears in Pliny the Elder
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in his Natural History
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an example of the of luxury
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the perspective point of the painting draws attention to Cleopatra's finger holding the
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each of the protagonists are accompanied by gender-specific
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Cleopatra has her dog
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Anthony has his
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Cleopatra focuses intently upon dissolving the pearl
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Tiepolo demonstrates with the painting how Cleopatra Rome to her will and to her beauty and agency
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allows the image of Cleopatra to seduce the
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a beautiful woman with hair and blue eyes
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her actual skin color was probably
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Tiepolo probably used that of his model
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perhaps his wife or one of his
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she does not resemble Cleopatra's image on ancient
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Cleopatra's costume
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her frock made of golden silk is covered with pearls
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flows elegantly over her
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a ruffle frames her neckline
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the brooch in the center of her shows a classical female figure
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she is covered with pearls from head to foot
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the many attendants emphasize her power
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dresses in an array of silks and
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the two add a multicultural dimension to the composition
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emphasizes the sense of power of Cleopatra by minimizing the impact of her husband Marc Antony
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she addresses us with her face turned toward us
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Antony is seen only at an angle with him facing in to the side, his to the viewer
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powerful body dressed in military attire
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brass
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we don't see the full range of his features
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we are not able to gauge his reaction to Cleopatra's acts of extravagance through which she asserts her agency
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surrounding palaces of the pharaohs
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this famous palace in is widely discussed in ancient literature
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appears in the writings of
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a crowd of which watch the banquet from above comment on the scene below
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in the upper left-hand corner, a man at Cleopatra
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the of the setting, richly attired servants, the magnificent architecture, and the attention of onlookers all conspire to bring Cleopatra's power to the fore
Vocabulary:
 bodice, n. [BAW-diss] an article of clothing for women covering the body from the neck to the waist ⇒ "The brooch in the center of her bodice shows a classical female figure." |
Spelling Corrections:
extravagent ⇒ extravagant
desolving ⇒ dissolving
magnificante ⇒ magnificent
opulance ⇒ opulence
Ideas and Concepts:
Fact checking details of 18th century paintings, via this morning's Sexing the Canvas:
"Art and Gender course:"Can a pearl really dissolve in vinegar? The story goes that Cleopatra bet Mark Antony that she could outdo his efforts at extravagance by serving a single meal that cost 10,000,000 sesterces ($30 million). Antony couldn't imagine how one meal could cost so much, so he accepted the challenge.
Cleopatra's meal was extravagant but certainly fell far below the price tag she had mentioned, and so Mark Antony felt that he won the bet. Then Cleopatra ordered a class of vinegar, took off one of two enormous pearls she was wearing as earrings, dropped it in the vinegar, and after it was dissolved, swallowed it down.
Many classical scholars even of the 20th century, claimed that vinegar definitely does not dissolve pearls. Unfortunately, what this demonstrates is that many classical scholars aren't very good at chemistry, because they are wrong. Pearls will dissolve in vinegar, and there had been evidence and explanations of this fact as far back as the 19th century. Today we have numerous and credible recorded experiments which show that pearls can both be heavily damaged and can dissolve quite completely over a period of days in both household vinegar and bleach.
What is extremely unlikely, however, is that Cleopatra dropped her pearl in the vinegar and watched it dissolve in a few minutes like an alka-seltzer in water. There are ways to speed up the chemical reaction such as heating the vinegar or first grinding up the pearl into powder from, but Pliny, the primary source for this story, mentioned neither of these.
What is more likely, if this story has any truth to it at all, is that Cleopatra either left the pearl in the vinegar for a days and then drank it, or she simply swallowed the pearl along with the vinegar, which, given the value of the pearl, would have technically meant that she won the bet."
"Art and Gender course:"Can a pearl really dissolve in vinegar? The story goes that Cleopatra bet Mark Antony that she could outdo his efforts at extravagance by serving a single meal that cost 10,000,000 sesterces ($30 million). Antony couldn't imagine how one meal could cost so much, so he accepted the challenge.
Cleopatra's meal was extravagant but certainly fell far below the price tag she had mentioned, and so Mark Antony felt that he won the bet. Then Cleopatra ordered a class of vinegar, took off one of two enormous pearls she was wearing as earrings, dropped it in the vinegar, and after it was dissolved, swallowed it down.
Many classical scholars even of the 20th century, claimed that vinegar definitely does not dissolve pearls. Unfortunately, what this demonstrates is that many classical scholars aren't very good at chemistry, because they are wrong. Pearls will dissolve in vinegar, and there had been evidence and explanations of this fact as far back as the 19th century. Today we have numerous and credible recorded experiments which show that pearls can both be heavily damaged and can dissolve quite completely over a period of days in both household vinegar and bleach.
What is extremely unlikely, however, is that Cleopatra dropped her pearl in the vinegar and watched it dissolve in a few minutes like an alka-seltzer in water. There are ways to speed up the chemical reaction such as heating the vinegar or first grinding up the pearl into powder from, but Pliny, the primary source for this story, mentioned neither of these.
What is more likely, if this story has any truth to it at all, is that Cleopatra either left the pearl in the vinegar for a days and then drank it, or she simply swallowed the pearl along with the vinegar, which, given the value of the pearl, would have technically meant that she won the bet."
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