Abduction of Helena - fresco CensusID: 10034778

Abduction of Helena - fresco
CensusID: 10034778
Alias
Helena and Paris
Location Roma, Regio X, Domus Flavia, Aula Isiaca
Description
Class
Type
Material
painting
fresco
plaster
plaster - stucco
stucco
Present Condition damaged/fragmentary
destroyed(?)
Original
yes
Number
01
Descriptive Details left part is widely destroyed
scene, 1
male, 5 (?)
male, standing on shore
semi-nude
young
youth
wearing helmet, chlamys and shoes
helping female leaving a ship
female
draped
leaning on male
ship
rudders
crew
sailors
umbrella
sea
rocks
Helena
Helen of Troy
Paris
History
Date of Creation
Style
Artist(s)/Creator(s)
Preservation Event(s)
20 BC, c.
3rd Pompeian Style
unknown
Date
1722-1724
Action excavated
Note(s) Discovered on the Palatine hill in Rome, in the Aula Isiaca
beneath the Farnesina Gardens.
Provenance
Provenance Event(s) Date
Location
Note(s)
1722-1724
Roma, Regio X, Domus Flavia, Aula Isiaca
discovery
Relationships
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Corpus Winckelmann Document(s):
> Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > book 1 > ch. 4 > p. 532 > ll. 15-18
> Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > p. 533 > ll. 30-32
References
Bibliography:
> Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums,
Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes
Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) > p.
445, no. 1056
> Giulio Emanuele Rizzo: Le pitture dell' Aula Isiaca di Caligola. Monumenti della pittura antica
scoperta in Italia II, Rome 1936 > pp. 17ff.
> Lexikon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, I-(...), Zuerich, Muenchen 1981-(...) > vol. IV, p.
534, no. 188
> Alessandra Themelly: Pier Leone Ghezzi tra “erudizione” e nuova scienza
archeologica, in: Dea e scienza dell' antichità. Roma e l'Europa 1700-1770. Parte prima. Roma nel
primo '700, a cura di Joselita Raspi Serra, in: Eutopia. Commentarii novi de antiquitatibus totius
Europae. Rivista diretta da Adriano La Regina II,1, Roma 1993
> p. 75, note 23
Comment
inserted by:
Brigitte Kuhn
Thomas Fröhlich
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