02-23-2026, 03:15 PM
Liana Cheney
University of Massachusetts Lowell
"The purpose of this essay is to identify and analyze one of Lavinia Fontana's mysterious paintings, traditionally entitled Cleopatra but here considered to be an inventive portrayal of an ancient scientist, Cleopatra the Alchemist (ca. third century BCE)."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._Alchemist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fontana
https://www.wikiart.org/en/lavinia-fontana
University of Massachusetts Lowell
"The purpose of this essay is to identify and analyze one of Lavinia Fontana's mysterious paintings, traditionally entitled Cleopatra but here considered to be an inventive portrayal of an ancient scientist, Cleopatra the Alchemist (ca. third century BCE)."
https://www.researchgate.net/publication..._Alchemist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavinia_Fontana
https://www.wikiart.org/en/lavinia-fontana