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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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seau inspirateur. Girolama Ridolfi, she said, was a young man who lived in thesame haunted house as Chiaro dell Erma, Chiaro of Hand and Soul, youremember ? His Lettres would, I am afraid, be as difficult to find as thattriptych in Dresden or that picture in the Pitti palace of which my father-in-art gave so fascinating an account. I was the more interested in this confirmation of my suspicion, as thatvery day I had been snubbed by a fellow art-critic who, on my asking himas we stood before Veronica Veronese who Ridolfi was, had replied withmingled surprise at my ignorance and in easy surety of knowledge— Oh,Ridolfi ? Why the famous Girolama Ridolfi, of course, who wrote theLettres, you know. x It was with pleasure I turned to the bright and winsome Lavinia, 1 As I have seen the French quotation in question attributed seriously to themediseval writer Ridolfi, I may as well say definitely here that Rossetti himself toldme he had written these imaginary words of the imaginary Ridolfi.
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Veronica Veronese. By D. G. Rossetti. FAIR WOMEN 41 who had strolled from beneath the warm lights and shadows of thetree where G. D. Leslie had seen and painted her. It may be abourgeois taste, but I admit that I preferred this wholesome, sunny,sweet-natured young Englishwoman to her more aesthetic neighbour withthe canary. Glancing back at the canvas itself, it seemed to me one ofthe best open-air pictures that Leslie ever painted, and to show thethorough skill and knowledge of that fine English artist whom it has longbeen the fashion to depreciate.1 If Lavinia was as gentle in voice andmanner as her smiles and expression would naturally indicate, there was acontrast at hand in the person of a very pretty but rather pettish girl whostood biting a long wisp of hair which she had snatched from her tangledwavy locks. I remembered a drawing by Mr. Frederick Sandys calledProud Maisie, and it was easy to recognise the original. I did notspeak, however; and also passed, without more than a

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