Catalogue of an exhibition of Florentine painting ... - Warburg Institute

PICTURES 23
From the collections
of Miss Rogers, Samuel Rogers the poet,
and Mr. C. Sackville Bale (as Benozzo Gozzoli).
Exhibited at the British Institution in 1858 (No. 35) and at
Burlington House in 1870 (No. 118).
Exhibited at this Club in 1902 (No. 15).
Probably by an illuminator of the San Marco school, in
contact with Era Angelico.
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School of ERA ANGELICO (1387-1455).
Lent by Sir Frederick Cook, Bart.
THE RAPE OF HELEN.
The scene is laid near the Temple of Venus, which stands in a
grove on the sea-shore. Paris, clad in blue tunic, red flowing mantle
lined with yellow, pink hose, dark boots, and red turban, is seen
carrying Helen off to a waiting boat: she wears a pink robe with a
white fringe at the bottom of her dress and round her red sleeves, a
flower turban, and red pointed shoes. Near the shore is the ship,
To the left the ladies
on which is seen a man in red cloak and cap.
in attendance are watching the rape in astonishment. They wear
dresses of the fifteenth century (brown and pink, green and red), with
the statue of
bright coloured turbans. On the altar of the Temple
Venus; on the cupola one of Cupid. Dark olive-green sea, with
conventionalized waves. The islands and the distant shore are of a
pale purple colour. Moonlit sky with clouds.
Panel, dodecagonal ; diameter, 22^ inches. Painted on a desco da
on which dishes were served to ladies in child-bed.
parto or tray,
Other deschi da parto painted by the same artist are in the
Carrand collection in the Bargello at Florence (No. 16) and in the
collection of M. Martin Le Roy of Paris;
both are adorned with
Paris. The author of these
representations of the Judgement of
works is a purely Florentine painter of the same group as Pesellino.
Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Winter Exhibition,
1902, No. 13.
FLORENTINE SCHOOL, c. 1440.
Lent by Sir Frederick Cook, Bart.