The Reception of Helen at Troy  1468

These three paintings (Walters 37.1178, 37.1179, and 37.1180) depicting the ancient Greek story of the Abduction of Helen of Troy appear to be the only monumental series of 15th-century Italian panel paintings celebrating ancient history that exist today. The story, undertood as history, not fable in the 1400s, is that Paris, prince of Troy (an ancient city-state in what i...