Cleopatra before Caesar (1866), Jean-Léon Gérôme, oil on canvas. Private collection. CC BY-ND by Charles Vanthournout, Doctoral student in American Egyptomania, lecturer at the Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France, University of Lorraine Cleopatra will be the focus of one of the major exhibitions of 2025, ” The Mystery of Cleopatra ,” presented at the Arab World … Continue reading In the United States, the figure of Cleopatra focuses debates around race, gender and sex.