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DescriptionTomb of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, illuminated manuscript of Boccaccio, miniature by the Boucicaut master, 1409 AD (cropped).jpg
English: A miniature illustration from the 1409 AD illuminated manuscript of Giovanni Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles); it depicts Mark Antony and Cleopatra in their tomb, with an asp slithering near her chest, and a bloody sword impaling his chest. Their figures are depicted as both dead bodies and as statues in a medieval Gothic environment rather than an ancient Hellenistic-period Ptolemaic-Egyptian setting.
For further information see pp. 53-54 of Anderson, Jaynie (2003) Tiepolo's Cleopatra[1], Melbourne: Macmillan, ISBN 9781876832445
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Artwork: the Boucicaut Master (identity unknown, provenance French or Flemish); illuminated manuscript: anonymous author.
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