The Rape of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy
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This monumental hanging depicts Helen\u2019s abduction\u2014the legendary event that sparked the Trojan War. Chinese embroiderers relied on European printed sources for the subject and the composition but incorporated design motifs from their own decorative vocabulary, including phoenixes in the border and stylized waves in the background. The figures\u2019 faces and limbs were painted directly on the cotton foundation in a European style, likely by Chinese artists who were taught in Japan by Jesuit missionaries. Scientific analysis of the pigments supports this intercultural exchange, since testing found a blue-green pigment not used in Asia and a white common in Japan but not used in Europe.Free picture The Rape of Helen from a set of The Story of Troy integrated with the OffiDocs web apps
