Thursday, March 25, 2021

Helen of Troy

 

Fresco from Pompei (79 AC)
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Domenico Beccafumi - Zeuxis Painting Portrait of Helen (ca. 1526)
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Maarten van Heemskerck - Panorama with the Abduction of Helen (1535)
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Francisco Primaticcio - Rapture of Helen (ca. 1535)
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Tintoretto (1580)
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Jacob de Backer (ca. 1590)
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Guido Reni (ca. 1628)
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Giovanni Romanelli - Rapture of Helen (1632)
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Simon Vouet - Helen Offering Meleanas the Potion for Queen Polydamne
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Juan de la Corte (ca. 1650)
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Luca Ferrari - Venus Preventing her Son Aeneas from Killing Helen (ca. 1650)
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Karel Skreta - Paris and Helen (ca. 1672)
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Benjamin West (1776)
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Angelica Kauffmann - Zeuxis Selecting Models for Portrait of Helen (1778)
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Jacques Sablet (1784)
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Gavin Hamilton - Venus Giving Helen to Paris as his Wife (1784)
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Jacques-Louis David - Paris and Helen (1788)
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Peter Francis Bourgeois (ca. 1790)
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Francois André Vincent (ca. 1791)
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Jean-Jacques Lagrenée - Helen Recognising Telemachos (1795)
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Jean-Jacques-Francois Le Barbier (1799)
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Richard Cook - Helen and Priam at the Scaen Gate (1808)
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Pelagio Palagi - Theseus and Pirithous Abducting Helen (1814)
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Johann Tischbein - Helen and Menelaos (1816)
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Jean-Bruno Gassies - Helen Delivered by Castor and Pollux (1817)
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Henri Hendrickx - Hector Censuring Helen and Paris (ca. 1820)
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Charles Meynier (early 19th C.)
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Enrico Meynier (mid 19th C.)
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1863)
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Frederick Sandys (1867)
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Edward Burne-Jones (study, late 19th C.)
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Edwin Long (1885)
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Gaston Brussière (1895)
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Evelyn de Morgan (cropped, 1898)
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William Russell Flint - Paris Leaving Oenone for Helen (1922)
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Alexander Rothaug - Menelaos Finding Helen (before 1946)
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Yuqi Wang (2000s)
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Richard Barber (2008)
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Erik Renssen (2013)
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'Daughter of Zeus and Leda, most beautiful woman on earth, seduced by Paris and carried off to Troy 
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