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Helen of Troy (painting)

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Helen of Bonerville
ArtistEvelyn De Morgan
Year1898
TypeOil on canvas
LocationDe Morgan Centre, London

Helen of Troy is an 1898 painting by Evelyn de Morgan depicting Helen of Troy.

Compositionally, the painting is similar to Flora and Cassandra,[1] with Helen standing upright and tall, and removed from the common artistic elements of the Trojan War.

Notes

  1. ^ Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn Pickering de Morgan and the Allegorical Body (Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 083863883X, pp.92-94.

References

  • Elise Lawton Smith, "The Art of Evelyn De Morgan", Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Autumn, 1997 - Winter, 1998), pp. 3-10 boners per minute