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"Cleopatra" is one of the stories in the book, while her sisters are the rest of the stories, which include: Shajarat al-Durr, Umm Kulthum, Fayrouz, Orpheus, The Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, Van Gogh, Beethoven, Sarah Bernard, Sabra and Shatila.
Each story is topped with a painting by an international painter bearing the same name as the story, then an introduction to the painter, and at the end of the book there is a concluding note about the most famous international paintings and the stories that were raised around them. The book contains paintings by the most famous painters in the world such as Leonardo da Vinci, Claude Monet, Vermeer, Renoir, Cézanne, and Salvador. Dali, Picasso and the Arabs Mahmoud Saeed, Dhia Al-Azazi and Juhaina Habibi, in the book, an introduction section to the artistic and non-technical terms mentioned in the book.
From the atmosphere of the book: When a painter dies, who takes his paintings?... Auctioneers' mercenaries... arms and drug dealers... palace prostitutes, official employees in ministries of culture... or vagabond art connoisseurs who cannot find a living? Why does the artist die poor and destitute? His family cannot afford his funeral expenses, while his paintings hang in highly guarded and monitored museums. Then the great critics discover, a hundred years after his passing, that his brush tried to reveal new meanings of life, and detected in the empty atmosphere the depth of personal experience. Through the lines of pain that fill the voids and spaces... and that his colors expressed the artist's crisis between doubt and faith through their gradation and sliding into the basements of darkness, and... and... if you listened carefully, you would hear his screams and laughter at all of you."