The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-16
High Houors to a Female Artist.

In the latter years of her life Sofonisba
was deprived other sigbk, but retained
her intellectual faculties, her love Of art,
and her relish for tho society of its.
.1ptdfessbrA s.9hAc ddfebeh ehcesAhe held in
her own palace were attended to the last
by distinguished painters from every
quarter. 1Fahdyck was frequently her
guest, and was accustomed to say he had
received more nlightenment from this.
blind old woman than from all his
studies of the greatest masters. This
ewag lD mean Btsiae I IEom stlies. fayorite
scholar of Rubens; and who shall say it
was not deserved2 rBy precept and by
example she helped to raise art in Genoa
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Her pictures have something of the grace
and cheerfulness Of Raphael, in whose
style her first master painted, and some
thing OF the relief Of the followers of
Uorreggio. More than. any other
woman other time" writes va5ari with
more study and greater grace, she has
labored on everything connected with
drawing not only has she drawn, colored,
and painted from hia, Rpd,made excellent
copies, but she has also drawn many
beautiful original pictures" -
One Of Sofonisba's works, seen at Gre
monia in 1924, was a beautiful picture of
die Virgin giving suGk to tie Divine in.
FAINT In portraits her skill is said to
have been little inferior to Titan. Her
charming portrait of herself is no mean
gem among the treasures jof ths;ry galleries
and libraries at Althorp. She has drawn
herself in what the Germans term a knee.
piece rather u9dey life size The small
and finely formed head Is we'll act on a
graceful neck; the dark hair is smoothly
and simply dressed; HE. lectures are
Italian and regular; the complexion is
J hSf ffqkdsS edSlE5 5.siosea astmg dress
is relieved by white frills at the throat
and wrists, and two white tassels hanging
over the breast Her delicate and ex,
quisitely painted hands are seen over the
chords 1of "a, apinnet Z On theLright, in
deep shadow, stands an old woman, wear
ing kerchiel twisted turbanwise around
her head, and resembling o ST. Elizabeth
or a st. Anne in religious composition Of
the Caraecia TheTwhole is painted IN
she clear, firm manner Of the best pencils
OF Florence. > Sofonisba died in 1920
Women Artists in oil Ages and Countries
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NJ Bacquerel has presented to the
ii Academic des Sciences Paris, his fourth
snd last nemoir on this subject, in which
lie has directed his attention particularly
to the diGrnal variations in the air and in
vegetables. The daily variation in the
air is the difference between the maximum
md minimum temperature Of the day
lptained by special thermometers. This
: mode will not suffice to determine the
same elements in trees,5 which must bt
rxamined hourly or at short intervals
fue observations made at Genoa by
pictet and Maurice, 1870 to l800 were
referred to, which afford tho remarkable
result that the mean Of the tenlperaturt
observed in the tree at sunrise aiid sunset
Il equal to its temperature at TWO o'clocl
ssssP. N. NJ. .Bacqusrel has shexn that tn,
lninimnm temperature in vegetables, what
ever may be their diameter, is at sunrise
and the maximum some hours after sun
set The daily variations ia. about fy
tines greater in the Dir than in a tree
because of the bad conducting power O
the wood, the temperature diminishin