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CAESAR’S COMET


 

Sound track for the painting:

L. van Beethoven. Moonlight Sonata

 

Aroma for the painting:

Yves Saint Laurent. Nu


Taste for the painting:
apricot sauce ice cream (named The Sun)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Technique: oil on canvas, modeling paste

Dimensions: 57 х 77 cm

Style: Positive Synergism

Private collection

 

You can hardly find someone who has not heard about the love affair of a legend queen Cleopatra of Egypt and even more legendary Roman emperor Julius Caesar… 

 

Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last active pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Macedonian Greek origin during the Hellenistic period, went down into history not only as a woman of surpassing grace and beauty, but also as an extremely gifted personality with a strong and courageous character. Cleopatra received an excellent education, which, added to her natural wit, delivered the best results: during her reign Egypt became the most opulent and attractive country of the world. The country that could not give rest to the Romans…

 

The queen’s captivating personal qualities and character, compiled with her convincing speech and fascinating charm, reflected in every word and gesture, produced irresistible effect on everyone around. The sweetness in the tones of her voice was pleasing the senses and mind aesthetically. Her tongue, ‘like a many stringed instrument, could easily be tuned into any language and dialect’… Apart from her native Greek, she could speak Egyptian, Aramean, Ethiopian, Persian, Hebrew, and Berber (9 languages altogether). Her linguistic skills definitely also included Latin, though Roman intellectuals (like the offspring of an ancient patrician family Gaius Iulius Caesar, a statesman, general and writer), could fluently speak Greek themselves…

 

52-year-old Caesar fell in love with the young queen at first sight...
Their love was strong, bright, beautiful, and brief, like a comet…
On 15 March 44 BC, Caesar was treacherously killed… At the moment, Cleopatra was only 25, but life had already lost its meaning…
However… 7 days later, at the most desperate instant, she noticed a comet in the sky, and ‘as if an unusual feeling stabbed her, a splash of recognizing: Caesar… In addition, she heard his voice, sounding lower than whispering… He said that everything would be good, but she should become again that Cleopatra, whose energy and resourcefulness had admired him so much’… She understood: she ‘will be always with him as his spiritual wife, who will join him in heaven’… The comet was hanging in the sky for 7 days… It was seen in Alexandria and far away in Rome… The Romans had the same explanation for the fact as Cleopatra: Caesar had been deified! ‘And first time after his death, or more exactly, after his exit, she was feeling happy, because it became clear that he was not dead’… Moreover, she had their son Caesarion left with her, who with his face and posture resembled his father so much…
This understanding reconciled her with that life… Afterwards they met in other lives, too…

 

It does not take a professional numerologist to see the mystical connection with the help of number 7, which resonates with the vibrations and energies of the ‘God given’, great and wonderful, - the main mystery of the Creation, perfection, Universal order, and completion of the circle…

 

You might say that this is a beautiful legend, and that ‘for never was a story of more woe than this of’… Cleopatra, Caesar, and comet… For someone it is a legend, but for someone it is past lives’ reality…
Maybe exactly at this moment, here and now, Cleopatra and Caesar, holding hands tightly, are taking a good look at the abyss of the sky in the attempt to trace the mark of their distant comet…

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Pictures of the paintings: Sergrei Didyk