クレオパトラ
Talk about a dramatic exit! Italian artist Giuseppe Bottani captures Cleopatra's final moments here, but she looks surprisingly serene for someone about to end it all. With her royal crown still in place and rich blue drapes falling around her, she seems lost in thought rather than panic as the deadly asp makes its appearance near her waist. It's a classic Baroque twist on a famous historical suicide, trading gore for a sense of tragic, pale-skinned elegance that was all the rage in 18th-century art circles.