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| Keywords: Maerten van Heemskerck - Panorama with the Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World - Walters 37656.jpg Heemskerck painted this homage to ancient art in Rome where he traveled to study antiquities as well as the work of contemporary masters such as Michelangelo 1475-1564 16th- or 17th-century Europeans could call on this celebration of ancient ingenuity to validate their own In 1535 when Heemskerck painted this panorama to complement Cardinal Ridolfo Pio's famous collection of antiquities scholars were still disputing which of these monuments were the most marvelous Heemskerck's interpretation of the narrative the abduction of Helen queen of the Greek city-state Sparta by Paris a prince of Troy in Asian Minor an epic that stretches across the ancient world to Rome itself was influenced by versions of the story that set events among the marvels of heroic achievements of the ancient world This luminous panorama is one of the most famous Northern landscapes of the 1500s; its array of ancient marvels and evidence of antiquity's greatness provided a picture-puzzle for the viewer challenging him to locate and identify the pieces In Greek and Roman literature a rainbow was evidence that the messenger goddess Iris identified by her multicolored mantle was on her way to deliver a message In this story she alerted Helen's husband Menelaus who was away from home when the abduction took place 1535 Renaissance Oil on canvas cm 147 3 383 5 accession number 37 656 21286 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Signature On the ship in right foreground Martin van Heemskerck; Date On the ship in right foreground 1536; Signature In bundle of rowboats in center foreground MH; Date In bundle of rowboats in center foreground 1535 World of Wonder The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1971-1972 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 Art Before the Iconoclasm Northern Netherlandish Art 1525-1580 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Amsterdam 1986 A Renaissance Puzzle Heemskerck's Abduction of Helen The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1993 Fiamminghi a Roma 1508-1608 Palais des beaux-arts Brussels Belgium Brussels; Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome 1995 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Maarten van Heemskerck Abduction of Helen Amidst the Wonders of the Ancient World Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Abduction of Helen 1530s mythological paintings Seven Wonders of the World Paintings of Greek mythology Fictional landscapes 1530s landscape paintings Coasts in art Mythological paintings in the United States 1535 oil on canvas paintings in the United States | ||||
