CHAPTER VI 



The Coming of the Dawn 



No painting of its type appeals more 

 powerfully to my imagination than 

 Guido Reni's Aurora strewing flowers 

 before the chariot of the sun god. 

 The only trouble about it is that it 

 is a ceiling painting; but opposite the 

 entrance of the Casino Rospigliosi 

 just off the Via Quirinale, where this 

 great mural triumph may be seen in 

 Rome, there is a table upon which you 

 will find a hand-mirror in which the 

 marvelous coloring may be studied 

 with more or less satisfaction. And 

 that reminds me of a little story of 

 the Sistine Chapel. 



Some years ago Billy and Bess and 

 I were in a Baedeker brigade ostensibly 

 studying, with the aid of little mirrors 



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