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Updated: June 13, 2025
The day of her burial was one of public mourning; her funeral was attended with great pomp, and she was buried beside Guido Reni in the splendid church of the Dominicans.
"No, sir," the man answered, staring blankly at the spectacle of a well-dressed gentleman carrying a ragged street child in his arms, "Mme. Reni is just coming out, I think; her carriage is waiting for her. Yes; there she comes." Zita descended the stairs, leaning on the arm of a young cavalry officer.
"Oh! it would have been better if he had died!" sobbed Reni, "for then he would have been with Jesus; but now it is awful to think of the life-long slavery; and we shall never more see him on earth." "Nay, mother, do not think thus. Whatever God does must be best," returned Ramatoa in a tremulous voice. "Let us try to say `Thy will be "
Then came the Sabbath, and they attended morning service in the Cathedral, in the very chapel of San Januarius which is decorated with pictures by Domenichino, Guido Reni, and Lanfranco, the completion of which was prevented by the jealousy of the Neapolitan painters.
Here also are miniatures by other great painters, such as Pourbus, Guido Reni, Bassano, Clouet, Holbein. Look particularly at No. 3382, a woman with brown hair, in purple a most fascinating little picture. The Ignota in No. 3348 might easily be Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England.
It is not my affair, of course, but I cannot understand " "My aversion to Mme. Reni? It is only when " "No, your caring to live with her when you feel that aversion. It seems to me an insult to her as a woman and as " "A woman!" He burst out laughing harshly. "Is THAT what you call a woman? 'Madame, ce n'est que pour rire!" "That is not fair!" she said.
"I was beginning to get over the loss of his father it was so many years ago that they took him from me! and as my boy grew up, the likeness to my Andrianivo was so strong that I used to try to think it was himself; but now both " "Are with the Lord, which is far better," said Ra-Ruth, tenderly laying her hand on Reni's arm. "You are young to give such comfort," returned Reni, with a sad smile.
A daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, whom she accompanied to England when he was invited to the court of Charles I. Artemisia has been called the pupil, and again the friend, of Guido Reni. Whatever the relation may have been, there is no doubt that the manner of her painting was influenced by Guido, and also by her study of the works of Domenichino.
He adored Mozart: 'I can imagine nothing more distasteful to me, he said, 'than a thirty-mile walk through the mud; but I would take one at this moment if I knew that I should hear a good performance of Don Giovanni at the end of it. The Virgins of Guido Reni sent him into ecstasies and the Goddesses of Correggio into raptures.
Mamba, grown to a giant, seemed to have come back to her. But it was not her son. It was Andrianivo, her long-lost husband! For one moment poor Reni seemed terrified and bewildered, then she suddenly grasped the man's prematurely grey head in both hands and covered the face with passionate kisses, uttering every now and then a shriek by way of relieving her feelings.
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