HOME | DD
Medusa1893 — Queen Cleopatra VII sketch.
Published: 2013-03-12 00:20:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 2780; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 6
Redirect to original
Description
This sketch of Cleopatra was taken from a bust located in the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany. I was not very careful re-crafting the exact details so I do apologize for the strange facial features. This was made as a render depicting the queen as documents from the time of her reign describe her. I am a historian of Cleopatra by hobby and have studied her life greatly. I draw people as they were. Elizabeth Taylor was a lovely Cleopatra and the film is one of my favorites, but I draw the queen as she actually looked, not how we see her today. You can see an beautiful picture of the bust here at,[link]
Related content
Comments: 4
Fantastic work! You did such a faithful job! You did a perfect job with the diadem, which very well could have been made of gold instead of the usual white cloth, given the Roman painting of Cleopatra VII wearing a golden diadem from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus, Pompeii, made in the 40s BC during her visits to Caesar's villa in Rome!
I also entirely approve of the red hair, which matches the color red found in the Roman painting of Cleopatra from Herculaneum, painted in the early 1st century AD, not too long after her death (in 30 BC). Overall the look you've created does a great job matching her own Ptolemaic coins from Alexandria, Egypt. Bravo!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
she had small nose, blue eyes, blonde hair. Perfect skin colour. But her faceshape is more round. Not like a potato. Smaller lipss, she was a fine woman.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
too white. she was golden brown and had black hair and smaller nose and smaller eyes.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Too white? What? You do realize Cleopatra VII Philopator was an ethnic Macedonian Greek, right? She had no known Egyptian or for that matter a black Kushite in her Ptolemaic royal family tree.
Cleopatra's only known non-Greek and non-European ancestor was Apama, a Seleucid queen and Sogdian Iranian wife of Seleucus I Nicator. Surprise, surprise, though: the Sogdians were Caucasians with fair features, much like their modern-day descendants, the Yaghnobi people of Tajikistan.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0