Enrique Simonet Lombardo was a Spanish painter.
Self-portrait, 1910
Bronze First Class medal 1896 by the III Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries, Barcelona; given for Simonet's Flevit super illam [es]
¿Y tenía corazón? (And she had a heart!) 1890 by Simonet; depicts an anatomist grasping a young woman's heart in a morgue reflecting increased Parisian interest in life and death
The Judgement of Paris 1904 by Simonet; depicts the Greek myth in which Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest woman against Athena and Hera leading to the seduction of Helen and the Trojan War
Helen, commonly known as Helen of Troy and sometimes as Helen of Sparta, is a figure in Greek mythology said to have been the most beautiful woman in the world. She was believed to have been the daugh
Enrique Simonet
…Paris 1904 by Simonet; depicts the Greek myth in which Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest woman against Athena and Hera leading to the seduction of Helen and the Trojan War In 1901, he became professor of Studies and Forms of Nature and Art, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona; during this time, in…
Helen of Sparta boards a ship for Troy, fresco from the House of the Tragic Poet in Pompeii
The Love of Helen and Paris by Jacques-Louis David (oil on canvas, 1788, Louvre, Paris)
The birth of Helen on an Athenian red-figure cup by the Xenotimos Painter, c. 430–420 BC. The egg, watched over by the eagle of Zeus, rests on an altar flanked by Tyndareus and Leda; behind Tyndareus stands Clytemnestra.
Leda and the Swan by Cesare da Sesto (c. 1506–1510, Wilton). The artist has been intrigued by the idea of Helen's unconventional birth; she and Clytemnestra are shown emerging from one egg; Castor and Pollux from another.