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Title: Fair women in painting and poetry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharp, William, 1855-1905
Subjects: Women in literature Women in art Women Beauty, Personal
Publisher: London : Seeley New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Portrait of a Lady. By Piero deha Franc esc a. Titian has represented with art so consummate ; but even as I lookedmy eyes grew dim. FAIR WOMEN 55 In a confused array, no longer Venetian or even Italian, I saw all thatcompany disappear ; an emaciated Fair Woman, who is said to have
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The Countess of Suffolk. By Daniel My tens. inspired the famous Ferrara painter, Piero della Francesca ; Saskia,the comely wife of Rembrandt ; the Countess of Pembroke, whom 56 FAIR WOMEN Gheeraedts painted, known to fame as Sidneys sister,Pembrokes mother,from her zealous care for the Arcadia after her brothers death ; thatother great lady, the Countess of Suffolk, so ably painted by D. Mytens ;a repentant Magdalen, who to my astonishment passed as the Lady JaneGrey, and as the daughter-in-art of Lucas de Heere—two strange mis-takes, surely !—and others whom I need not mention or have alreadyspoken of. The two latest, whom I saw just before all became obscure,were not the least noteworthy. One was the noble and splendid lady, whomSir Antonio rejoiced to paint with all his skill, that Elizabeth de Valoisdaughter of Henri II. of France, and wife of Philip II. of Spain, who ismemorable to us rather as the heroine of Schillers master-tragedy, DonCarlos. The other was that heroic but,

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