Jacob Adolphus Holzer was a Swiss-born designer, muralist, mosaicist, interior designer, and sculptor who was associated with both John La Farge and Augustus Saint-Gaudens before he left to direct the
Homeric Story mosaic at Alexander Hall, Princeton University, 1894
Center aisle of St. Peter's Episcopal Church (Albany, New York)
Homeric Story, 1894, Alexander Hall, Princeton University, left detail featuring Agamemnon, Menelaus, and other notable Achaeans
Homeric Story, 1894, center detail featuring Homer, Paris, Helen, and Achilles
Paris, also known as Alexander, is a figure from Greek mythology who appears in the numerous stories about the Trojan War, including the Iliad. He was prince of Troy, son of King Priam and Queen Hecub
Jacob Adolphus Holzer
…Hall, Princeton University, left detail featuring Agamemnon, Menelaus, and other notable Achaeans Homeric Story, 1894, center detail featuring Homer, Paris, Helen, and Achilles Homeric Story, 1894, right detail featuring Hector, Priam, and other Trojans References…
The 'Trojan Archer' or 'Paris', from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, ca. 505–500 BC, Munich.
7th-century BC Melian pithamphora depicting the Judgement of Paris, Archaeological Museum of Paros.
Paris receives Hermes who leads Athena, Hera and Aphrodite. Painting on terracotta panels, 560–550 BC
El Juicio de Paris by Enrique Simonet, c. 1904. Paris is studying Aphrodite, who is standing before him naked. The other two goddesses watch nearby.