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 Prague, studied at the Academy, and in 1590-94 was employed by Rudolph II., who made him court-painter and sent him to Italy. There he remained four years, studying especially Paul Veronese, but after his return was strongly influenced by Johann van Achen, Spranger, and Velvet Brueghel, his contemporaries at the imperial court. Works: Rape of Proserpine, Dresden Gallery; Leda, Artemisia with the Ashes of Mausolus, Augsburg Gallery; Satyrs and Nymphs (1599), Schleissheim Gallery; Herodias, Venus Asleep, Venus and Adonis, do. and Nymphs (1609), Crucifixion (2), Diana and Actæon, Portrait of Rudolph II. (1594), Vienna Museum; Portrait of Himself, his Brother and Sister (1596), Berne Museum; Crucifixion(?), Schwerin Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 663; Füessli, i. 61; Kugler (Crowe), i. 271.

HEINZ, JOSEPH, the younger, born about 1590, died in 1655. German school; son and pupil of Joseph the elder; afterwards studied with his stepfather Gondelach in Augsburg. Fond of painting sorcerers and witches. Went to Italy, and lived mostly in Venice, where he painted altarpieces. Urban VIII. made him knight of the Golden Spur. Works: Two Marys at Christ's Grave (1655), All Saints' Chapel, Venice; Diana Bathing, Venice Academy.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xi. 664.

HEISS, JOHANN, born at Memmingen, Bavaria, in 1640, died at Augsburg in 1704. History and landscape painter, pupil of Heinrich Schönfeld and of Sichelbein. There are many altarpieces by him in the churches of Augsburg, Ratisbon, and Neustadt. Works: Scipio granting Liberty to Allucius (1679), Death of Dido, Neptune and Venus, Hall with Antiques, Hall with Female Models, Brunswick Museum; The Seasons personified, Wiesbaden Gallery; Exodus of the Israelites (1677), Dresden Museum.

HELEN, ancient pictures. See Eumelus, Zeuxis.

HELEN, RAPE OF, Benozzo Gozzoli, National Gallery, London; wood, octagon, tempera, H. 1 ft. 7 in. × 2 ft. The wife of Menelaus carried off to a ship by Paris and his companions. Panel probably formed the cover of a cassettone or box for wedding gifts.—Nat. Gal. Cat.

Rape of Helen, Guido Reni, Louvre.

By Guido Reni, Louvre; canvas, H. 8 ft. 3 in. × 8 ft. 7 in. Paris, preceded by Cupid and giving his hand to Helen, leads her to the ship in which his companions are about to embark; three women follow Helen, bearing jewels and a dog; in front, a little