Dish with the Abduction of Helen

1565-1575 (Renaissance)

43.5 cm 5.5 cm

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This dish depicts the abduction of Helen, an episode at the onset of the Trojan War recounted by many ancient authors including Homer in his Iliad and that was well known during the Renaissance. The goddess Venus promised Prince Paris that he could marry Helen, the most beauti...

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F. Spitzer Collection [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 1143]; H. Wencke Collection, Hamburg [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 92 (?)]; Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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