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| Antonio Canova Bust of Helen of Troy ca. 1812-22 marble Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Anonymous Italian Maker Helen of Troy 15th century bronze plaquette British Museum |
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| Giovanni Bernardi Abduction of Helen before 1553 chalcedony intaglio British Museum |
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| Giovanni Francesco Susini Abduction of Helen 1627 bronze statuette Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Attic Greece Red-Figure Lekythos Paris embracing Helen ca. 420-400 BC painted terracotta Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees unmoved,
God's daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.
– H.D. (1924)
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| Jacob de Backer Paris admitted to Helen's Chamber ca. 1585-90 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jacques-Louis David Love of Paris and Helen 1788 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| workshop of Frans Francken II Abduction of Helen ca. 1625 oil on panel Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Luca Ferrari Venus preventing her son Aeneas from killing Helen of Troy ca. 1650 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Venus inducing Helen to fall in love with Paris 1790 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Abduction of Helen ca. 1630-32 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Gustave Moreau Hélène glorifiée ca. 1890 oil on canvas Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris |
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| Jacopo Tintoretto Abduction of Helen ca. 1578 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| François-André Vincent Zeuxis choosing models for an image of Helen from among the girls of Croton ca. 1786-96 oil on canvas Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University |