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The Death of Cleopatra, ca. 164555, Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 × 29 1/2 in. (95 × 75 cm), Paintings, Guido Cagnacci (Italian, Santarcangelo di Romagna 16011663 Vienna), The subject derives from Plutarch's Lives (1st century A.D.) and illustrates Cleopatra's suicide by an asp bite following the defeat of her beloved Mark Antony at the battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
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