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"I don't know, Sebastiano. Why?" "I've come with a message for him." "Not for Lucrezia?" Sebastiano laughed boldly, but Lucrezia, blushing red, disappeared into the kitchen. "Don't play with her, Sebastiano," said Hermione. "She's a good girl." "I know that, signora." "She deserves to be well treated." Sebastiano went over to the terrace wall, looked into the ravine, turned round, and came back.
Many young men worked under Sebastiano at various times in order to learn art, but they made little proficience, for from his example they learned little but the art of good living, excepting only Tommaso Laureti, a Sicilian, who, besides many other works, has executed a picture full of grace at Bologna, of a very beautiful Venus, with Love embracing and kissing her, which picture is in the house of M. Francesco Bolognetti.
"Because they are in love with him all of them," replied Manuel, sweepingly. "Why?" said Pepita, again. " Why?" Manuel echoed, somewhat bewildered by the frank, indifferent ignoring of all natural reasons in this question "'why? Because he is so tall and strong and well made, because he is handsome, because he is more daring and graceful than any of the others because he is Sebastiano."
Lucrezia knows that Sebastiano loves some one else. I ought to be trying to comfort Lucrezia. I did try. I did go to pray with her. But that was before. I can't pray now, because I can't feel sure of almost anything. I sometimes think that this happened without God's meaning it to happen." "God!" Artois said, moved by an irresistible impulse. "And the gods, the old pagan gods?"
The head and hands of this portrait were things truly marvellous, to say nothing of the beautiful execution of the velvets, the linings, the satins, and all the other parts of the picture; and since Sebastiano was indeed superior to all other men in the perfect delicacy and excellence of his portrait-painting, all Florence was amazed at this portrait of Anton Francesco.
He himself was only José, and a brother was, after all, a poor substitute for a lover who could talk and sing and make jokes, and wear such a dashing air that she would be proud of him. "That is it," he said, sagely, to himself. "A woman must have some one to be proud of, and she could never be proud of me. If I were Sebastiano now, it would be different."
The picture was an offering to the Virgin, after the cessation of a pestilence at Venice, and consecrated in a church of the Franciscans dedicated to St. Nicholas. Another celebrated votive picture against pestilence is Correggio's "Madonna di San Sebastiano." Sebastian and St. Roch, the latter asleep. Sebastian, bound, looks up on the other side. The introduction of St.
In one of these scenes, then, he made many figures of Satyrs that are weighing legs, arms, and other members of figures with a steelyard, in order to put on one side those that are correct in weight and satisfactory, and to give those that are bad to Michelagnolo and Fra Sebastiano, who are holding conference over them; and in the other is Michelagnolo looking at himself in a mirror, the significance of which is clear enough.
She wanted Sebastiano for her very own, and the thought of his freedom when away tormented her. Gaspare comforted her in perfunctory fashion. "What does it matter?" he said. "When you are married you can keep him in the house, and make him spin the flax for you." And he laughed aloud. But when they drew near to the cottage he said: "Zitta, Lucrezia! The padrone is asleep.
Meanwhile, Leo, wishing to compromise matters, offered Sebastiano the great hall in the lower apartments of the Borgias, where Alexander VI. used to live, and where Pinturicchio painted rooms shut up in pious horror by Julius when he came to occupy the palace of his hated and abominable predecessor.
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