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 HELENA negro with an npe and a dog. This picture, celebrated in its time in verse and prose, was painted for the King of Spain ; but he find- ing the price too high, Guido sold it to M. do La Foreade for Maria de' Medici ; the queen being obliged to leave Paris, M. Forcade sold it to Louis Phelipeaux, Seigneur do La Villa-re, from whom it passed through sev- eral other hands to the Musee Napoleon. Engraved by Desplaces. Landon, Musee, xi. PI. f>0. HELENA, painter, daughter of Timon of Egypt, 4th century lu 1. The mosaic of the Battle of Issus, at Naples, is perhaps a re- production of her only recorded work. Ptolein. Hephaest. in Phot. Bibl., p. 4S-J (ed. Hoeschel). HELENA, ST., VISION OF, Paolo !>/-- nese, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. '' ' . ' Wtm^fc^m - >; 3&yfcM$y l A m^^jA I n, Vision of St. Helena, Paolo Veronese, Vatican, Rome. 6 ft 5 in. x 3 ft. 9 in. The Saint, in sleep or revery, reclines on a marble window-seat, resting her head upon her right hand ; through the open window are seen two cherubim bearing a cross. The design ap- pears to be after an engraving by Marc An- tonio, supposed to be after a drawing by Raphael Etched by E. W. Sherboru in Art Journal (1884), 257. Nat. Gal. Cat. ; Bartsch, xiv. 443 ; Hichter, 74. By Paolo }'i-rnni'Ki', Vatican, Koine. Seat- ed, asleep, wearing the imperial crown, and clad in a rich brocaded Venetian costume, her head resting upon her left hand ; at right, a little angel standing holds a Greek cross. Acquired from Galleria Saechetti bv Benedict XIV., who placed it in the Capitol Museum, whence removed to Vatican. En- graved by Gins. Craffonara. Laronsso, ix. 1'.': Vaticano descritto, vi. PI. 7(>. HELFFT, JULIt'S, born in Berlin. April li, 1H1K. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of W. Schir- mer ; went in 1SI.'{ to Italv, painted there a series of views around Florence for King Frederick William IV., then visited Rome, Naples, and Sicily, and returned in 1S47, when he was appointed professor in Berlin Academy. Works: Sicilian Cloister Yard (1S47), Doge's Palace -Venice (IS.li;), Na- tional Gallery, Berlin ; Canal Grande in Ven- ice ; San Miniato near Florence. Miillcr, 247. HELIODOHUS. painter, of Athens, date unknown. Perhaps identical with sculptor of same name mentioned by Pliny (xxxvi. 4 [91]), some of whose statues were in the Temple of Jupiter in the Portico of Octavia, Itomo. Pausan., 1, :!7, 1. HELIODOIU'S, EXITLSIONOF, /!<!/,/,- iii'/, Stan/a d'Kliodoro, Vatican ; fresco. He- liodorus, treasurer of the Syrian king, at- tempting to plunder the Temple at Jerusa- lem, is driven out by two avenging angels (2 Maccabees, ii. '2~>). In background the High Priest Onias praying before the taber- nacle ; in foreground, right, the answer to the prayer Heliodorus overthrown, and his soldiers put to (light by two angels with scourges and a celestial horseman ; at left, O the assembled jx-ople and Julius II. in his chair of state. The bearer in front is Mare Antonio Raimondi, and another farther back is supposed to be Giulio Romano. Typical of the victory of the Papacy over its enemies, especially Louis XII. of France. 1'aiuted in