When Edmonia Lewis presented her five-foot, two-ton marble sculpture The Death of Cleopatra at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the crowd that swarmed around it was the largest at the ...

Video documents the condition of Lewis' The Death of Cleopatra prior to and through the conservation and restoration process. Commentary is included explaining this ...

In a recent interview for The Guardian, El-Arifi explains that Cleopatra started as “historical fiction,” but quickly turned into a memoir due to a lack of illuminating historical sources. Over the ...

"This [sculpture of Cleopatra] was not a beautiful work, but it was a very original and very striking one . . . [Cleopatra] is seated in a chair; the poison of the asp has done its work and the Queen ...