For his painting of Helen of Troy, the Greek painter Zeuxis, unable to find any girl model beautiful enough to serve as a model, inspected the teens of the city and chose out four, whose peculiar beauties he proposed to reproduce in his picture.
For his painting of Helen of Troy, the Greek painter Zeuxis, unable to find any girl model beautiful enough to serve as a model, inspected the teens of the city and chose out four, whose peculiar beauties he proposed to reproduce in his picture.
"One can't paint Troy as it is, but rather as it is felt."
Fixation on antiquity is regarded as a particularly pernicious decadence, as Braque suggests.
