177. THE MAGDALEN.

_Guido_ (Eclectic-Bologna: 1575-1642). _See 11._

Just such a picture as might have suggested the lines in Pope's epistle

on "The Characters of Women"--

Let then the fair one beautifully cry,

In Magdalen's loose hair and lifted eye;

Or dress'd in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine,

With simpering angels, palms, and harps divine;

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,

If folly grow romantic, I must paint it.

Just such a picture, too, as Guido turned out in numbers. "He was

specially fond," says one of his biographers, "of depicting faces with

upraised looks, and he used to say that he had a hundred different

modes" of thus supplying sentimentality to order.

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