Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · New York : F. F. Sherman · leaf 133
,and the second, to the Berlin Gallery. To this veryscanty list I propose to add another, a cassone-ivont atLe Havre, representing the Rape of Helen. In this picture (Figure 27), Paris is seen snatchingHelen, more than an armful for him, who screams andstruggles, while an accomplice points the way… … with despatch, with liveliness, and a touch of humourperhaps intentional. It certainly cannot pretend tothe refinement that a Pesellino, or the passion that aBotticelli would have spent upon the theme. On theother hand, from every point of view, whether of in-terpretation, or arrangement, or…
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