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Venturi suggested attribution.","remarks":"From accession card. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This finished drawing of the ancient Egyptian queen Cleopatra (shown killing herself with a poisonous asp) can be firmly situated within the context of Giacomo Francia’s print production: the nude’s round, sculptural quality is also evident in the female figures represented in several of Francia’s engravings. Following Pope Julius II’s display of an ancient sculpture of Ariadne—which he mistook for Cleopatra and which was engraved by Giacomo’s colleague, Marcantonio Raimondi— Cleopatra became a popular subject for artists.","remarks":"Italian Drawings"}],"media":[{"id":19108,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1947-177","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"PUAM photo"},{"id":111862,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV34998","isprimary":0,"rank":2,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave,<i> </i>et. al., <i>Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum</i>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014).","citation":"Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave,<i> </i>et. al., <i>Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum</i>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 16, cat. no. 6; p. 17 (illus.)","date":2014,"id":1855,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/869726410"},{"boilertext":"<em>Exhibition of drawings by old masters from the private collection of Prof. Frank Jewett Mather: International Art Center of Roerich Museum: December 18th to 31st, 1930</em>, (New York: Roerich Museum, 1930).","citation":"<em>Exhibition of drawings by old masters from the private collection of Prof. Frank Jewett Mather: International Art Center of Roerich Museum: December 18th to 31st, 1930</em>, (New York: Roerich Museum, 1930)., no. 11","date":1930,"id":5328,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/863465110"},{"boilertext":"Lucy Hughes-Hallett, <EM>Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions</EM>, (New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1990).","citation":"Lucy Hughes-Hallett, <EM>Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions</EM>, (New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1990)., p. 152; pl. 9","date":1990,"id":5407,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/21390861"},{"boilertext":"Babette Bohn, \"The antique heroines of Elisabetta Sirani\", <EM>Renaissance studies</EM> 16, no. 1 (Mar., 2002): p. 52-79.","citation":"Babette Bohn, \"The antique heroines of Elisabetta Sirani\", <EM>Renaissance studies</EM> 16, no. 1 (Mar., 2002): p. 52-79., p. 71-72, fig. 5","date":2002,"id":5408,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/24413226"},{"boilertext":"Felton Gibbons, <i>Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University</i>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977).","citation":"Felton Gibbons, <i>Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University</i>, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., p. 83–84, no. 219 (illus.)","date":1977,"id":263,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/2136968"}],"exhibitions":[],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2031625,"term":"Italian","aatid":300111198,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2158076,"term":"snakes","aatid":null,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2089219,"term":"queens (people)","aatid":300025483,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2135449,"term":"suicides","aatid":300069678,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2051964,"term":"drawings","aatid":300033973,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055672,"term":"nudes","aatid":300189568,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2044331,"term":"laid paper","aatid":300014184,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2167672,"term":"ink","aatid":300015012,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2051964,"classification":"drawings"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031625,"culture":"Italian"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"26.10"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"18.50"},{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"54.60"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"41.90"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"3.17"}],"packages":[{"packageid":205616,"name":"exh_tour_Italian_Drawings"},{"packageid":182970,"name":"P&D_Drawings_Watercolors"},{"packageid":224527,"name":"Tour - It Draw"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":5242,"name":"Web_ID_5"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1947-177"],"displaymaker":"attributed to Giacomo Francia, Italian, ca. 1486–1557","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Attributed to Giacomo Francia (Italian, ca. 1486–1557), Cleopatra, ca. 1520. 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