how CLEOPATRA looked in REAL LIFE

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  • Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
  • Cleopatra made real based on The Berlin Cleopatra, a sculpture created around the time of her visits to Rome in 46-44 BC. Her makeup look is based on the green/blue malachite paste for eyeshadow, red oche lipstick and rouge, and black khol for eyeliner and mascara.
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  • @straydogontheroad
    @straydogontheroad 4 роки тому +1753

    Since I've been seeing some confused people, here's something I googled, to explain why she isn't more tan, and also for the people who think she looks manly:
    "69 BCE: Cleopatra is born in Egypt. She is the seventh in the Ptolemy dynasty to bear the name Cleopatra, which means glory of the father. She is the second daughter of Ptolemy XII. She and the rest of the Ptolemys were of almost pure Macedonian Greek ancestry, possibly of some Iranian but no Egyptian ancestry."
    "Her coins minted in Egypt portrayed her as a masculine, with a hooked large nose. Historians believe that she intentionally portrayed herself with her father's strong jawline as a display of strength."

    • @drmaine9452
      @drmaine9452 4 роки тому +40

      Wow did u copy and past or did u do that on your own because if you did that on your own I'm proud of you

    • @WinxHarmony
      @WinxHarmony 4 роки тому +96

      @@drmaine9452 it's copied and pasted, that's why they put quotation Mark's around it

    • @riverevans726
      @riverevans726 4 роки тому +47

      @Crystal Macintosh funny, the modern Greek woman has so many similar features to my sister, we are only 6% Greek tho but my first thought was that it looked like her xD

    • @hyeronymus
      @hyeronymus 4 роки тому +3

      Thank you!

    • @hyeronymus
      @hyeronymus 4 роки тому +2

      @Crystal Macintosh 🙏🏾

  • @aldrinmilespartosa1578
    @aldrinmilespartosa1578 3 роки тому +1615

    "Beauty is temporary, intellect is eternal"
    - Cleopatra probably

    • @cadaverdog1424
      @cadaverdog1424 3 роки тому +51

      Actually, that was said by Ivanka Trump. Sorry to correct you, but I felt I had to.

    • @cozywalrus7175
      @cozywalrus7175 3 роки тому +19

      Eternal

    • @misscleo_
      @misscleo_ 3 роки тому +25

      You are right. I did say that.

    • @shealstewart271
      @shealstewart271 3 роки тому +16

      @@cadaverdog1424 Who stole from Alicia Machado who stole from someone else.

    • @katerinapatiniotis5598
      @katerinapatiniotis5598 3 роки тому +29

      She stole it from Judge Judy who said : beauty fades, dumb is forever.

  • @spartjovic
    @spartjovic Рік тому +21

    Jada Pinkett Smith probably should've done her research 😂

  • @Elif-ij5ry
    @Elif-ij5ry 3 роки тому +18

    Am I the only one who finds cleopatra beautiful ?

  • @Luna.311
    @Luna.311 4 роки тому +3112

    Cleopatra wasn't actually that beautiful it was her intellect and her character that won julius caeser and mark Anthony over. I wish people would talk about the kind of person she was than just how she looks.

    • @bellcanada7169
      @bellcanada7169 4 роки тому +255

      Brains > Beauty

    • @australianhuntanstuff
      @australianhuntanstuff 4 роки тому +115

      Probably because this is not what that channel is about!!!!..... Have you ever given a second to figure out what this channel is about???.... Why am I asking that question??? Obviously you haven't!!!

    • @kaiceecrane3884
      @kaiceecrane3884 4 роки тому +194

      @@australianhuntanstuff I wish I could dislike your comment more than once

    • @madumita1985
      @madumita1985 4 роки тому +132

      Beauty standards are different back then 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @HBOMAXtvmoviesyoutube
      @HBOMAXtvmoviesyoutube 4 роки тому +121

      i read somewhere that it was her intellingence and charm that seduced leaders like Marc Anthony not necessarily her looks

  • @aspasia-angelikikatasarkou
    @aspasia-angelikikatasarkou 4 роки тому +2113

    This is kinda creepy but it's exactly what the sculpture looks like. I died that u put even the sharpy eyeliner which she's famous for that.😂😂 make more like these.

  • @elvin2696
    @elvin2696 Рік тому +31

    I came here after I saw that Netflix turned Cleopatra into a black woman 😂

    • @S0me395
      @S0me395 Рік тому +2

      Same 😂😂😂😂

    • @FreezeMathias
      @FreezeMathias Рік тому +9

      Expected from american propaganda. The EU/Brussels should start to regulate stuff like that.

    • @reneescott4500
      @reneescott4500 Рік тому +1

      Aww she was

    • @johnnylilja3687
      @johnnylilja3687 Рік тому

      @@reneescott4500 😄

    • @MaxPianist
      @MaxPianist 6 місяців тому +1

      Cleopatra was Greek so she was white more white than this image from this video.

  • @bienvvo
    @bienvvo 3 роки тому +547

    It was not her beauty but her intelligence, political skills and extraordinary capacity to manipulate powerful men that made her successful.

    • @carlomariaromano4320
      @carlomariaromano4320 3 роки тому +10

      That's what the Roman historians said.

    • @benedict6432
      @benedict6432 3 роки тому +26

      I mean it makes sense, she probably had some centuries of in-breed ancestors, soo it's logical for her to not look good I think

    • @perlaperla3025
      @perlaperla3025 3 роки тому +6

      Me la imaginaba diferente.

    • @anacardenas8563
      @anacardenas8563 3 роки тому +3

      @@perlaperla3025 siempre he vivido facinada por su inteligencia

    • @owenosborne-lewis5060
      @owenosborne-lewis5060 3 роки тому +9

      @@benedict6432 Spot on. Products of incest are said to have unpleasant bodies. Most notably the face.

  • @TM-fu2we
    @TM-fu2we 3 роки тому +239

    That's a Greek face if ever I saw one.

    • @playhouse2024_
      @playhouse2024_ 3 роки тому +27

      Yes it is. Definitely

    • @katerinapatiniotis5598
      @katerinapatiniotis5598 3 роки тому +24

      Yes. It's a Greek face.

    • @Alexs.2599
      @Alexs.2599 3 роки тому +18

      A certain type of Greek face yes. We have diverse looks for a small nation. Though the Ptolemy dynasty of Egypt had Syrian blood in them as well. In fact Cleopatra was rather inbred.

    • @katerinapatiniotis5598
      @katerinapatiniotis5598 3 роки тому +23

      @@Alexs.2599The Ptolemaic dynasty were 99% Greek from Makedonia.
      As for Syrian background, they weren't actually Syrian, they were Greeks from Greek kings, such as Antiochos the First, the Sotir, etc.
      Only Seleucus I (Nikator), (Greek nobleman from Makedonia northern Greece and general of Alexander the Great) married a non-Greek wife, the Persian noblewoman Apama. The rest were all Greek.

    • @Alexs.2599
      @Alexs.2599 3 роки тому +4

      @@katerinapatiniotis5598 Antiochos was a Hellenized Syrian, not actually Greek. There's a difference between Hellenized people of the Near East and Greek Hellenes. The Ptolemy dynasty got their Greek ancestry from their founder and ancestor Ptolemy, who as we know was one of Alexandros' Greek Macedonian generals. By the time of Cleopatra those Greek genes were mixed with near eastern ancestry. There was still Greek there but a little more distant. I still consider her more or less Greek, but more outlier Greek mixed. Not 99% Greek at that point in history.

  • @adamemac
    @adamemac 4 роки тому +797

    What if you took a Bob Ross painting and made it as realistic as an actual photograph?

    • @potatosack7492
      @potatosack7492 4 роки тому +11

      Good idea!

    • @adamemac
      @adamemac 4 роки тому +6

      @@potatosack7492 Thanks!

    • @what3137
      @what3137 4 роки тому +14

      adam mac i wouldn’t know the difference honestly lmao, but good idea

    • @adamemac
      @adamemac 4 роки тому +4

      @@what3137 😂 True, but thanks!

    • @08jag81
      @08jag81 3 роки тому +11

      And any mistakes would become birds.

  • @teetarquin7012
    @teetarquin7012 3 роки тому +120

    My grandmother had a cousin named Cleopatra. They called her Cleo and she lived to be 110 years old. Btw, love how you transformed the sculpture.

    • @playhouse2024_
      @playhouse2024_ 3 роки тому +7

      My grand grandma died at thr age of 115 too 😂 basically, my family lost counting after a certain period. So we don't really know if she was 112 or even 117 yo when she died

    • @lisaduncan1239
      @lisaduncan1239 6 місяців тому

      It looks "transgendered"..lol

  • @MarelisaFabrega
    @MarelisaFabrega 3 роки тому +74

    Plutarch--a Greek writer and philosopher--wrote in his famous book, "Parallel Lives", that Cleopatra's beauty was not incomparable, or such as to strike those who saw her. So, she was attractive, but not strikingly beautiful.

    • @honkingantelope1990_
      @honkingantelope1990_ 3 роки тому +3

      well, i wished people were studying more because their stupidity is indeed incomparable and unbeatable

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 3 роки тому +14

      It was her vivacious brilliance and intelligence that made her strikingly beautiful. As the saying goes: Ya had to be there.

    • @AG-fg1uk
      @AG-fg1uk Рік тому +4

      So she was average looking and that's fine. Hollywood has people brainwashed that every royal person is attractive. Look at prince Charles of Wales 😹

    • @michaeljosephjackson2364
      @michaeljosephjackson2364 10 місяців тому

      ​@@richardreinertson1335u dont need to look like model to catch people attention
      Cleopetra is an example of it

    • @vanillabatcave5677
      @vanillabatcave5677 5 місяців тому

      I like to think that her beauty attracted men and her intellect kept them hooked.

  • @shubhangiraina3346
    @shubhangiraina3346 3 роки тому +150

    By far the best and the most realistic face reconstruction of Cleopatra! Young beautiful intelligent charismatic..good job.

  • @charles4283
    @charles4283 4 роки тому +302

    A lot of this is going off the accuracy of the sculpture, which is pretty dang cool.

    • @alexandercrush
      @alexandercrush 3 роки тому +11

      Sculptures don’t show the makeup though. I mean look at how makeup can transform someone. And this person was a queen with countless assistance. Not surprising she was able to make herself a 10

    • @tubbyqueen
      @tubbyqueen 3 роки тому

      @@alexandercrush How would you know if she wore makeup? You’re not a time traveller.

    • @alexandercrush
      @alexandercrush 3 роки тому +10

      @@tubbyqueen She was egyptian 😒

    • @Elly3981
      @Elly3981 3 роки тому +11

      @@tubbyqueen I'm sure a queen in any era had access to make-up, nice clothes, jewelry, perfume, etc.

    • @Elly3981
      @Elly3981 3 роки тому +4

      A lot of it is still guesswork, though. The artist has no way of knowing what Cleo's actual hair and eye-color was since the statue doesn't show it.

  • @phowebremerhaven
    @phowebremerhaven 3 роки тому +12

    The afro centric people are gonna lose it on this one.

  • @originsandcivilizations3983
    @originsandcivilizations3983 3 роки тому +10

    She had a babyface 😂❤

  • @linxiao143
    @linxiao143 3 роки тому +529

    This whole time I thought that statue was a boy .... I’ve been living a lie-

  • @hyeronymus
    @hyeronymus 4 роки тому +172

    Thought it was Julius Caesar

  • @scottpierce68
    @scottpierce68 3 роки тому +102

    A very classic Greek look. I believe the artist captured what Cleopatra probably looked like in real life based on the historical descriptions of her appearance.

    • @greekbalkanbeauty4027
      @greekbalkanbeauty4027 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed

    • @annearts5
      @annearts5 3 роки тому

      @123 123 either are the same just a slight difference but here is white

    • @annearts5
      @annearts5 3 роки тому +2

      @123 123 but they clearly not white not like this

    • @annearts5
      @annearts5 3 роки тому

      And also people everywhere usually call them black not consider it as brown

    • @annearts5
      @annearts5 3 роки тому

      @123 123 but the video picturises like that and most of the Egyptian are black so there's no point in finding skin colour whether it's dusky or fair however everything that God creates are beautiful, black or white they both are stunning right?

  • @juliuscaesare2666
    @juliuscaesare2666 3 роки тому +6

    She was a macedonian greek....

  • @a.munroe
    @a.munroe 3 роки тому +172

    Mostly literature of the era after her is basically "she was okay looking except her nose, but she was really smart" 😂

    • @LynxStarAuto
      @LynxStarAuto 3 роки тому +15

      @Ice Favorito The eyes were made too big. They are disproportionate to the rest of the face. Needed to be downsized some.

    • @AndieZ4U2
      @AndieZ4U2 3 роки тому +1

      @@LynxStarAuto I agree the well of the eyes were ballooned to cartoon level. The same with her lips.

    • @minutemansam1214
      @minutemansam1214 2 роки тому +14

      People back then LIKED big, hooked noses. That was considered attractive, and they are my personal preference.

    • @anonymoususer3888
      @anonymoususer3888 2 роки тому

      @Ice Favorito lol same. The eyes are creepy, irises too big or something but her nose looks like imo 😅

    • @AG-fg1uk
      @AG-fg1uk Рік тому +2

      Yes, she was no Elizabeth Taylor 😹. Just an average looking royal member like prince Charles of Wales 😹. Being royalty =/= obscenely attractive

  • @grumpymama5048
    @grumpymama5048 4 роки тому +547

    Day 15 of asking photoshopsurgeon to make: “Is Fanboy and Chum Chum perfect?”

    • @oddly_ace2837
      @oddly_ace2837 4 роки тому +16

      I need this and idk why

    • @its_a_me_kasean6242
      @its_a_me_kasean6242 4 роки тому +17

      I know, it's annoying as fuck when UA-camrs dont respond to your comment

    • @Luna.311
      @Luna.311 4 роки тому +6

      Who?

    • @suwu28
      @suwu28 4 роки тому +6

      Kasean Gaming they may be doing something else ya know.

    • @nathaelmonzon5136
      @nathaelmonzon5136 4 роки тому +1

      OMG YESS

  • @sonarbangla8711
    @sonarbangla8711 3 роки тому +5

    Digital Cleopatra is not only beautiful, but shows the character that made her famous.

  • @2Hot2
    @2Hot2 3 роки тому +11

    The face that launched a thousand fotoshops

  • @Laodice347
    @Laodice347 3 роки тому +512

    It's crazy that some people in the comments go so far as to deny the Macedonian origin of the Ptolemaic dynasty 😂Even their names are of Greek origin please 🤣🤦‍♂️

    • @juliuscaesar2180
      @juliuscaesar2180 3 роки тому +56

      I've been dead for 2000 yrs and I know that

    • @JRobbySh
      @JRobbySh 3 роки тому +18

      Plus there was interbreeding.

    • @valiyapurakkalNarayanankutty
      @valiyapurakkalNarayanankutty 3 роки тому +12

      Think Alexander ' the great' of Macedon had a sister named Cleopatra.

    • @emncaity
      @emncaity 3 роки тому +9

      Yup. All for agenda.

    • @EarlRegent
      @EarlRegent 3 роки тому

      @@emncaity "Agenda"? What you talking about?

  • @angelina6543
    @angelina6543 4 роки тому +159

    She was very cute and fatal for men. Having big nose was beautiful back then. It was sign of leadership and novelty. Does big nose associate you with passionate and adventurous people? I like small lips, I find them delicate and intensive. Nowadays are beauty standards different and most people would find her even ugly, that is very sad.

    • @user-jo5bj5lt4u
      @user-jo5bj5lt4u 3 роки тому +9

      Squidward reading this comment: 😌

    • @Go-tee71
      @Go-tee71 3 роки тому +8

      I would have been beautiful back in the day 🤣

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 3 роки тому +16

      "Very cute" is exactly right. Add to that her lively and vivacious intelligence and culture, and you have a totally irresistible woman. She was brilliant, and used her brilliance to keep her beloved Egypt safe from Roman power as long as she lived.

    • @taradivinelight9822
      @taradivinelight9822 3 роки тому +3

      Small lips are unappealing! They don’t kiss well.

    • @Misswiskers4
      @Misswiskers4 3 роки тому +4

      @@taradivinelight9822
      I would have to say , it would depend on whose lips they are , and the feeling behind them 😊

  • @curiousmohira
    @curiousmohira 2 роки тому +4

    Her nose is cute for me

  • @lilitudeamnocte248
    @lilitudeamnocte248 2 роки тому +15

    this is the most accurate one I've seen. others out there tryin to make her look like Kim K. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ this is spot-on. good work 💕

  • @TaraTara-ld2xb
    @TaraTara-ld2xb 4 роки тому +220

    This is odd, but... I think she looks like if Lin-manuel Miranda and Saoirse Ronan had a daughter together. Look them both up... I swear she looks like the 2 of them combined!

    • @NIDELLANEUM
      @NIDELLANEUM 4 роки тому +17

      Hamilton style Cleopatra musical confirmed

    • @theradioangel9104
      @theradioangel9104 3 роки тому

      Oh my god

    • @nadiashireensiddiqi
      @nadiashireensiddiqi 3 роки тому

      I see Elizabeth Taylor, what’s the evidence that her eyes were green?

    • @jamiemohan2049
      @jamiemohan2049 3 роки тому +3

      @@nadiashireensiddiqiNobody is quite sure of her exact eye or hair colour. She had pale olive skin, some say brown her others say dark red hair or Auburn. Hazel, green and blue eyes were most likely what she had as they are recessive traits and her family was highly incestuous.

  • @NIDELLANEUM
    @NIDELLANEUM 4 роки тому +160

    Hi, don't mind me. I am just a random comment wishing you are okay and are enjoying the day. Be happy, and remember to do that thing.

  • @dianartimus
    @dianartimus 3 роки тому +67

    That was awesome! I have a coin with her profile on it and your image is more like I imagined she looked like! Most archeologists claim she wasn't very attractive but this image is not only quite lovely, but also striking and since all the Ptolemys were Macedonian, her green eyes may have been very accurate. Regardless, outstanding job!

    • @multidimensionaltreefairy
      @multidimensionaltreefairy 2 роки тому +7

      attractiveness is subjective, i think she’s stunning from what they think she looked like.

    • @ibanez856
      @ibanez856 2 роки тому +1

      I agree

    • @KD400_
      @KD400_ Рік тому

      There was a comment above that said she made herself masculine on the coin to show off strength.

  • @valmarsiglia
    @valmarsiglia 3 роки тому +50

    Classical statues very often enlarge the eyes. It must be remembered that even though Roman statuary portraits are rightly prized for their realism, portraits of elite people were still to some degree or other idealized.

    • @unknown-jn9wk
      @unknown-jn9wk 3 роки тому +1

      Egyptians did have huge eyes it's not exaggerated

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 3 роки тому +10

      @@unknown-jn9wk 1. Source please. 2. Cleopatra was ethnically Greek.

    • @jsv438
      @jsv438 3 роки тому +8

      When making very large/tall statues, ancient Egyptians would slightly enlarge the upper body and heads (such as the colossal Rameses statues) so when looked at from the ground the perspective would be proper to those viewing the statue.
      R. A. Schwaller deLubicz explains this.
      ~JSV

    • @allimJ
      @allimJ 2 роки тому +3

      @@jsv438 woah, that’s such a good info. I just flipped my phone and her whole face structure changed. Mainly as well the eyes looked smaller. This deftl needs to be considered. Thanks for sharing this. It almost seems like looking frontal at it gravity is missing. When flipping my phone Gravity appears. Love that as well about the logic of portraits. Where the painter needs to work with focus on gravity, because a portrait isn’t 3-dimensional.

  • @sherimcnear1151
    @sherimcnear1151 4 роки тому +111

    In ancient Rome, portraits of the ruling class were often based on classical Greek statues of gods and goddesses. They claimed to be living gods, so they took every opportunity to remind people of their divine right to rule - which was a particularly dicey subject for a woman claiming to be a king like Cleopatra. Aphrodite/Venus was a favorite topic for women, while male rulers often preferred Hercules (complete with leonine mane). Cleopatra was often represented by Venus (or Cleopatra as Isis as Venus - which probably made sense at the time). There is a wall painting in Pompeii that is strikingly similar to the "real life" Cleopatra from this video. Experts have identified this as a portrait of Cleopatra as Venus (it's in room 71 of the house of Marcus Fabius Rufus). The painting is thought to be based on a statue of Cleopatra as Isis/Venus from the Temple of Venus Genetrix which was dedicated by Julius Caesar the same year - 46 BC.

    • @jjnc69
      @jjnc69 3 роки тому

      Absolutely YES. In fact, innorered to facts, if you see it ends to look like virgin Marie.

    • @playhouse2024_
      @playhouse2024_ 3 роки тому

      Is there any link of it?

    • @ericconnor8251
      @ericconnor8251 3 роки тому

      @@playhouse2024_ Kind of hard to miss this one, since the painting is found even on her Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra#Paintings

    • @konniechung
      @konniechung 3 роки тому

      Yawn. *fart.

    • @honkingantelope1990_
      @honkingantelope1990_ 3 роки тому

      @@jjnc69 indeed she looked like Virgin Mary in this painting. What a coincidence!

  • @michaelreed9652
    @michaelreed9652 3 роки тому +20

    Beautiful slim young lady with no tattoos........WOW unbelievable

    • @smokie651
      @smokie651 2 роки тому +1

      Wow what's wrong with tattoos. You know tattoos and piercings originated from that time right? Tattoos and piercings have always been around. Go look it up

  • @greekbalkanbeauty4027
    @greekbalkanbeauty4027 3 роки тому +49

    Hey ya all. Kleo was a Greek woman and she totally looks like a Greek woman. Nor Egyptian nor African nor what you want her to be. She RESPECTED all of the native and non native people who lived in Egypt in her period. You shall RESPECT her too.
    **very good job, realistic

    • @h.l.asolomonov7674
      @h.l.asolomonov7674 2 роки тому +2

      Exactly

    • @xavierlee4473
      @xavierlee4473 2 роки тому

      Who on earth cares? Is this actually something that people debate over? So boring and trivial. I come here to see an artist do their magic... instead I get someone doing some lecture on ethnicity and RESPECT. Good grief...makes me want to throw up a bit

    • @colibridor78
      @colibridor78 2 роки тому

      Who was her mum? A Greek woman? An Egyptian woman??

    • @josephstalin8543
      @josephstalin8543 2 роки тому

      @@colibridor78 the plotemy dynasty practiced inbreeding to keep their bloodline pure, even Cleopatra's first husband was her 15 year old brother

    • @colibridor78
      @colibridor78 2 роки тому

      @@josephstalin8543 where is it written it was to keep their Greek white bloodline pure? Again, who was Cleopatra's mother?

  • @victoriapapesh6892
    @victoriapapesh6892 3 роки тому +7

    She was indeed beautiful❤

  • @bridgetkintz72
    @bridgetkintz72 4 роки тому +157

    I bet you can do reconstruction of skulls from Jane and John Doe's too. I would like to see that.

    • @kaiceecrane3884
      @kaiceecrane3884 4 роки тому +6

      You can with clay, reforming the muscular structures and skin

    • @konniechung
      @konniechung 3 роки тому +1

      That's a bit of a leap to go from matching features to sculptured Stone shapes to recreating a full countenance from a fleshless tendonless meatless bone structure.

    • @konniechung
      @konniechung 3 роки тому

      No guidelines for sagging, fat distribution, dimples, wrinkles, collagen and soft tissue would be all imagination

  • @HisAudacity
    @HisAudacity 4 роки тому +31

    This is what she was sculpted like.. only her skull can give a perfect idea.

    • @bangtaesthetic343
      @bangtaesthetic343 3 роки тому +1

      💜 borahae

    • @HisAudacity
      @HisAudacity 3 роки тому

      @@bangtaesthetic343 borahae aamiii💜

    • @bangtaesthetic343
      @bangtaesthetic343 3 роки тому

      @@HisAudacity 😁💜💜

    • @minutemansam1214
      @minutemansam1214 2 роки тому

      While there are some exaggerations of features, like bigger eyes, in general Roman busts were made to accurately portray someone's face. So while the statue, when it was painted, may have been idealized, you would clearly recognize it as Cleopatra.

  • @jackdaniels1460
    @jackdaniels1460 Рік тому +3

    She would have looked like a woman from the Mediterranean. A mix of eastern European and middle eastern. Looking at the shape of her eyes. If no one told me that this was a statue of Cleopatra, I would have thought this was a statue of a Greek person.

  • @MC-tg1xk
    @MC-tg1xk 2 роки тому +3

    She had a strong personality. I’m sure yours is the best depiction! You followed the statue perfectly!

  • @gloriapinskerportraits4801
    @gloriapinskerportraits4801 3 роки тому +23

    No Elizabeth Taylor, but pretty! LOL. Seriously, I believe what some of the others have said, that it was a mixture of beauty, brains and charisma that made her so powerful.

  • @RCSVirginia
    @RCSVirginia 3 роки тому +17

    As Cleopatra was primarily Greek and Macedonian with some Persian from a dynastic marriage, this is about the darkest she would have been. She may have been fairer due to the Macedonian blood from Northern Greece, and she could have even been fair-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed. As far as is known, she did not even have a single drop of native Egyptian blood. Having said that, she was a polymath who spoke many languages including Egyptian, being the only Ptolemy to do so, and she was devoted to Egyptian religion and culture, as well as that of Hellenistic Greece.

    • @RCSVirginia
      @RCSVirginia 3 роки тому +6

      @L. M.
      I have seen both blondes and light-haired brunettes in Greece. Furthermore, the farther North one travels in Greece towards the area that was historically Macedonia whence the Ptolemies came, the more fair-skinned and fairer-haired people one sees.

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 3 роки тому +3

      @L. M. Nope, Greeks were white

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 3 роки тому +3

      @L. M. Greeks were white buddy, just accept it. Maybe slightly tan in some cases.

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 3 роки тому

      @L. M. White skin, all that matters. I don't care about the rest of your terminology. Their skin colour was white. That's it.

    • @AverageAlien
      @AverageAlien 3 роки тому

      @L. M. No, that is an old corroded statue made of bronze or something similar. Olive skinned Greeks were probably peasants, the nobility could range from fair to medium skin tones

  • @nalazhouse5185
    @nalazhouse5185 2 роки тому +3

    The image has so much intelligence in it's eyes...I guess she did all she did as a combination of beauty, softness and intelligence

  • @servioster
    @servioster 3 роки тому +9

    Remember that Cleopatra is the family Epitolomee, greek by origins. So her beauty´s pattern is the classic one.

  • @SassyBratt1
    @SassyBratt1 3 роки тому +19

    Her eyes look like Elizabeth Taylor who played her character in the 1963 film. And if you compare some of the images of Taylor and this rendition ...they look eerily the same. Very striking !!!

  • @mrs.paulschmetz3912
    @mrs.paulschmetz3912 3 роки тому +9

    Cleopatra is beautiful. She isn't ONLY attractive but also pretty.

  • @swa7169
    @swa7169 Рік тому +4

    Based on this, the HBO series Rome had pretty accurate casting in Lyndsey Marshall.

  • @ellhawa
    @ellhawa 4 роки тому +14

    Her Eyes beautiful

  • @adamemac
    @adamemac 4 роки тому +66

    Nice! Another history related "IRL" photoshop! I always find these incredibly fascinating!! Thanks, PS! Hope you're well!!

  • @QuizzicalQan
    @QuizzicalQan 10 місяців тому +1

    She is actually pretty cute looking!!

  • @AAvfx
    @AAvfx 3 роки тому +19

    Very interesting! 🔥👍

  • @kuldas9299
    @kuldas9299 3 роки тому +17

    Why did you go so different on the hair? Hair is very important for likeness.

  • @cookliet8444
    @cookliet8444 3 роки тому +15

    I love these, to be able to see how the historical people actually might have looked

  • @danielarutica2549
    @danielarutica2549 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you so much, this is incredibly brilliant work.

  • @diegojose9
    @diegojose9 3 роки тому +6

    The hair does not convince me, the rest yes

  • @manueltreill6358
    @manueltreill6358 3 роки тому +6

    That eyeliner sees right to the depths of my soul

  • @ScoopOfButter
    @ScoopOfButter 4 роки тому +58

    What is with the neck tho lmao

    • @BluKittenExtensions
      @BluKittenExtensions 4 роки тому +5

      ScoopOfButter yeah something off about the shadows there.

  • @gavinperry8433
    @gavinperry8433 3 роки тому +8

    It's nice to see that you have envisioned this with here Hellenic ethnicity.... I remember when Gal Gadot was cast to play her people shouting that Cleopatra was black and all sorts of lies

  • @tutuyou6269
    @tutuyou6269 3 роки тому +2

    Cleopatra looks more like man
    I wouldn't be surprised

  • @eunaekim9216
    @eunaekim9216 4 роки тому +78

    Even though she was not Egyptian, she was Mediterranean, and this does look like someone I could have met in that part of the world (from my experience with pics of Spanish and Italian people)!

    • @arianam9977
      @arianam9977 4 роки тому +46

      She was genetically Greek.

    • @arianam9977
      @arianam9977 4 роки тому +10

      @Crystal Macintosh Mm, that's not true though xd. Iberians for example are not nor have ever been Roman or Greek. It has nothing to do with that, just with being Mediterranean European 🙃

    • @australianhuntanstuff
      @australianhuntanstuff 4 роки тому

      @32ndSystem .... Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait? Are you trying to say after the muslims conquered Greece for well over 800 years there wasn't any demographic change???....say it aint so!!!!!

    • @MonkeyMagick
      @MonkeyMagick 4 роки тому +13

      Egypt was a lot more Mediterranean before the expansion of Islam.

    • @RONIDC1979
      @RONIDC1979 4 роки тому

      @@arianam9977 iberia had a lot of arab and it is said negro was 1st used in Portugal to describe jews. Israel was a mixed semetic and hametic people . lots of hametic or aftican people originatrdd in the middle east and mixed hence the word arab . even egyptains there and israelites in Egypt so the saphardic look the darker skin came from black dna where as northern Mediterranean like Macedonia etc is a bit different

  • @xocaloidkun9222
    @xocaloidkun9222 4 роки тому +70

    She’s like one of those korean beauty ads in seoul

    • @x6621
      @x6621 3 роки тому +13

      STOP 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @mimi6350
      @mimi6350 3 роки тому

      😂😂😂😂

  • @89tonstar
    @89tonstar 3 роки тому +42

    when people say she wasnt beautiful, I tell them there is a reason why Clearpatra wrote the first book on Cosmetology. She was literally the first instamodel. By the way, Marcus Antonius and Guis Julius Caesar were the most powerful men in the world, they wouldnt take up with someone unless they were hot. They could have any woman, (or man) they wanted.

    • @trueromancat7978
      @trueromancat7978 3 роки тому +5

      To some extent you are right. But believe me, Caesar and Antony wanted Egypt much more than any woman. Egyptian goods and treasures meant power in Rome and in the Mediterranean. That's what they wanted both.

    • @playhouse2024_
      @playhouse2024_ 3 роки тому +5

      @@trueromancat7978 hunny, they could have Egypt without Cleo. They could easily get rid of her.
      The case is, cleo wanted to keep her throne. And she used Caesar for that.
      Same later with Mark Anthony

    • @richardreinertson1335
      @richardreinertson1335 3 роки тому +4

      @@playhouse2024_ Nailed it. She had enough power over both those men to play them for power. Beautiful? Yeah, not really. But very cute, and with a vivacious brilliance that you could not understand unless you actually met her in person.

    • @g.3521
      @g.3521 2 роки тому

      Caesar could have easily taken Alexandria and made it an explicit Roman city state while he had his army occupying it... the problem was that even if he took it by force, having the Egyptians trying to revolt later would seem inevitable like what the samnites did and it would only drain his resources and international reputation (he was trying extremely hard for a kind of powerful but merciful vibe so he could get the people to accept him without too much resistance). Since Cleopatra owed Caesar big time for putting her back on the throne and ending the civil war, it was a far better strategy to put her in charge while making such a wealthy city amenable to himself

  • @sephiroth1
    @sephiroth1 2 роки тому +1

    She was pretty, and smart.

  • @Orlanzepol123
    @Orlanzepol123 3 роки тому +4

    She’s beautiful

  • @Wi-Fi-El
    @Wi-Fi-El 3 роки тому +5

    I did this trick in reverse for an album cover. Made myself a statue

  • @peynirformaggio6915
    @peynirformaggio6915 3 роки тому +2

    She was soo beautiful 😻

  • @suekullman3690
    @suekullman3690 3 роки тому +2

    She actually was Greek.

  • @LostinTranslation479
    @LostinTranslation479 4 роки тому +37

    Fun fact: Cleopatra is greek originally not Egyptian

    • @amritaparida3992
      @amritaparida3992 3 роки тому +13

      Not a Fun Fact: Everybody knows this.

    • @icytakaqi9en947
      @icytakaqi9en947 3 роки тому +10

      *Macedonian

    • @LostinTranslation479
      @LostinTranslation479 3 роки тому

      @@amritaparida3992 k

    • @user-ps2df2rc9u
      @user-ps2df2rc9u 3 роки тому +2

      gracefully unknown
      Queen Cleopatra is not European or African. She is pure Egyptian. Her grandfather, Ptolemy the First 300 years ago, became fully Egyptian and embraced the Egyptian religion in order to be the Pharaoh of Egypt.

    • @user-ps2df2rc9u
      @user-ps2df2rc9u 3 роки тому

      Icy Takaqi 9ën
      Pure Egyptian 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬💪

  • @indyboutrup72
    @indyboutrup72 3 роки тому +10

    Still, she has smart eyes!

  • @pawwalker3492
    @pawwalker3492 8 місяців тому +1

    From several reconstructions I've seen, I'd say yours is probably, from historic descriptions and using the bust, the best one yet.

  • @juliagritzbach
    @juliagritzbach 3 роки тому +1

    I love cleopatra!

  • @claudiavidal7203
    @claudiavidal7203 3 роки тому +8

    It is said that she wasn't pretty, but she was an interesting, clever and cultivated woman😊

  • @Lily_of_the_Forest
    @Lily_of_the_Forest 3 роки тому +50

    She wasn’t gorgeous, but she was cute. Her eyes are very pretty.

  • @selahstrong1027
    @selahstrong1027 3 роки тому +2

    Based upon the ancient encaustic painting of Cleopatra found at Hadrian's villa in the 19th century and thought to be painted from life by a famous ancient Greek artist Cleopatra looked like Dorothy Lamour except with light hair and eyes.

    • @playhouse2024_
      @playhouse2024_ 3 роки тому

      As I said, a face of greece and the balkans

  • @maryd.8822
    @maryd.8822 3 роки тому +2

    Now make her come to life and blink at you with that new myheritage app. Lol

  • @jeanettecook1088
    @jeanettecook1088 3 роки тому +6

    The historical sources I've read maintain that she had auburn hair.

  • @touplesoup
    @touplesoup 4 роки тому +73

    Shes got big eyes.., love it tho

  • @SR-mv2mf
    @SR-mv2mf 2 роки тому +1

    Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder I see..

  • @AlismonitesPatrides
    @AlismonitesPatrides 3 роки тому +5

    Average Greek woman

  • @takamikeigo7985
    @takamikeigo7985 4 роки тому +29

    She scary AF
    Wish I had your talent👌

  • @dalegreer3095
    @dalegreer3095 Рік тому +5

    Thank you for finally making a realistic image of Cleopatra! I keep seeing these “beautiful” images people make of her and can’t figure out why they don’t just follow the existing art. You’re the only one whose gotten those big round eyes of that sculpture. She’s pretty cute, but she’s no raving beauty. It was mainly her intellect that attracted Julius Caesar.

  • @chericoffman6321
    @chericoffman6321 3 роки тому +1

    Her cat eye liner is on fleek.

  • @juliuscaesare2666
    @juliuscaesare2666 3 роки тому +1

    Wow.. Amazing

  • @splintercell8555
    @splintercell8555 4 роки тому +6

    Amazing job!!! I love these videos.
    Could you make Alexander the Great as well, please?

  • @birdbrain9625
    @birdbrain9625 3 роки тому +3

    Great vid. I'd love to see you do a series on all the Roman Emperors 😃

  • @stefanfun
    @stefanfun Рік тому +1

    Surprisingly relevant today 😄

  • @kai2247
    @kai2247 6 місяців тому

    She is beautiful

  • @jolie8276
    @jolie8276 4 роки тому +7

    Please do a “Is Cher PERFECT?”

  • @seecanon5840
    @seecanon5840 3 роки тому +12

    She appears to have Greek ancestors.

  • @user-ob9bp6sv4o
    @user-ob9bp6sv4o 2 роки тому +1

    Cleopatra wonderfull ❤️🔥🖤😍😘🥰

  • @manetrigolini2967
    @manetrigolini2967 3 роки тому +1

    Very beautiful Mediterranean woman transparent amazing !!

  • @diamondgirls6541
    @diamondgirls6541 2 роки тому +3

    For those who don't know, Cleopatra was one of the greatest seductress of all time.

  • @jannetatrenholm3141
    @jannetatrenholm3141 3 роки тому +11

    Not very attractive woman,but she knew the secret of seduction.

  • @chetannagdeve7522
    @chetannagdeve7522 2 роки тому

    Wow she looks so cute

  • @maritzalara6222
    @maritzalara6222 2 роки тому

    She's Beautiful.

  • @patricijafijan6043
    @patricijafijan6043 4 роки тому +33

    This is pretty good 😍
    However I don't imagine here to look like that 😬

    • @jaykay030
      @jaykay030 4 роки тому +12

      It's a photoshop based on an accurate sculpture of her. What do you imagine what she looked like?

    • @patricijafijan6043
      @patricijafijan6043 4 роки тому

      @Crystal Macintosh Tbh yeah a little bit

    • @patricijafijan6043
      @patricijafijan6043 4 роки тому +1

      @Sentinel I meant photoshop skills 🤭

  • @bayonuniqueadventure6665
    @bayonuniqueadventure6665 3 роки тому +6

    Can you make Khmer greatest king, Jayavarman VII, looks in real? He is one of Khmer great kings who built Angkor Wat. It would be appreciated 🙏

  • @joysoyo2416
    @joysoyo2416 3 роки тому

    She really was pretty.

  • @ly1465
    @ly1465 3 роки тому +1

    Looks like Liz Taylor in her Cleopatra role

  • @felixbergbauer6098
    @felixbergbauer6098 4 роки тому +7

    if PENTATONIX had a BABY together...