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