ParisHelen2.0003_DaRovigo

ParisHelen2.0003_DaRovigo

Metropolitan Museum site
OGCMA s.v. "Paris and Helen"
Classical Sources:
Homer, Il., 3 and passim
Homer, Od., 4 and 15
Herodotus 2.112-20 7.690ff., 13.576ff.
Euripides Trojan Women 924-65
Euripides Electra 1280-83
Euripides Helen 31-46, 676ff.
Ovid Heroides 16
Apollodorus Libr. Epit. 3.1-6.29
Hyginus Fab. 92
Lucian Dialogi mortuorum 'Aeacus and Protesilaus"
Colluthus Harpage Helenes

Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo (or painted after his manner), ca. 1486-1582, "The Rape of Helen," maiolica earthenware serving platter, ca. 1530-35, Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 41.49.4, Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941.

The composition of platter's depiction seems to have been derived from a (now lost) work by Raphael, or perhaps from another lost painting by Giulio Romano, and perhaps mediated by an engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (1480-1534) (ParisHelen1.0019_Raimondi). A lovely 16th-cent. tapestry by the Gobelins workshop replicates the same scene; it is preserved at the Chateau Cheverny in France's Loire Valley. (ParisHelen2.0001_Gobelins).

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.