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The Banquet of Cleopatra Gerard Hoet "Seated under a canopy at the lavish banquet she hosts for Marc Antony, Cleopatra holds a glass of wine in which she is about to place a priceless pearl earring as an ostentatious sign of her indifference to wealth. The pearl dissolves in her wine, which she then drinks to Antony's health. In return, he presents her with Cyprus, Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, and parts of Arabia." Getty Museum