Visualized

Roman Empire
Achilles, Patroclus and Briseis
1st century AD
detached wall fresco from Pompei
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

Dosso Dossi
Trojans repairing Ships in Sicily
ca. 1520
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Artist
Abduction of Helen
ca. 1540-60
enamel on copper
Musée du Louvre

Guido Reni
Abduction of Helen
1631
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Salvator Rosa
Figure of Aeneas
ca. 1660-62
drawing (print study)
British Museum

Luca Giordano
Abduction of Helen
before 1705
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

René-Michel Slodtz
Chryses (Trojan priest of Apollo)
ca. 1740
terracotta
Musée du Louvre

Robert-Guillaume Dardel
Aeneas carrying Anchises from burning Troy
1786
terracotta
Musée du Louvre

Aimé Milhomme
Andromache
1800
plaster
Musée du Louvre

Wilhelm Tischbein
Homeric hero Diomedes
ca. 1801
etching and engraving (book illustration)
British Museum

Clodion (Claude Michel)
Homer bitten by Dogs
ca. 1809
terracotta
Musée du Louvre

Antonio Canova
Helen of Troy
1811
plaster
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Philippe-Laurent Roland
Homer
1812
marble
Musée du Louvre

Pio Fedi
Abduction of Polyxena
ca. 1858
gilt bronze
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Léon Bakst
Ballet Costume for Pollux in Hélène de Sparte
1912
watercolor and gouache on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Helen Frankenthaler
Trojan Gates
1955
oil and enamel on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tony Feher
Trojan Blue, or, Helen's Downfall
2001
spraypaint on cardboard
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York

The crowing of the cock

Though it may scare the dead,

Call on the fire to strike,

Sever the yawning cloud,

Shall also summon up

The pointed crocus top,

Which smelling of the mould,

Breathes of the underworld.

– W.H. Auden (1927)