![Prints and Principles: Pietro Monaco's engraving, “The Banquet of Cleopatra”, c1770, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Prints and Principles: Pietro Monaco's engraving, “The Banquet of Cleopatra”, c1770, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CuiaYy4c_cU/YStDwV9i34I/AAAAAAAAx6c/JR5BWhD76YwmtcdV3VVaYD3IKPXSfhDxgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1966/Monaco_BanquetofCleopatra_sheet_small.jpg)
Prints and Principles: Pietro Monaco's engraving, “The Banquet of Cleopatra”, c1770, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
National Gallery of Victoria - The love affair between the Roman consul Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra was a popular subject for artists in the 18th century. Tiepolo recounts the
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