134 Language Through Nature 



Is the picture one of sorrow or of joy ? How is this shown ? 

 What do you think the artist thought about the dawning 

 of a day? How has he shown this? 



What do you like best in this picture ? 



Lesson 85 



GUIDO RENI 



MORE than three hundred years ago, in the 

 quaint old city of Bologna, a beautiful dark- 

 eyed baby was born. This baby was Guido Reni. 

 His father was a musician, and often, as he looked 

 with proud, loving eyes at his little son, he ex- 

 claimed, ''The boy has the face of an angel. We 

 must make a musician of him." When Guido grew 

 old enough his father taught him to play upon the 

 flute, the harpsichord, and other instruments, and 

 gave him lessons in singing. 



The boy sang sweetly and played well, but there 

 was something he loved far better than making 

 music, and that was making pictures. He sketched 

 figures on scraps of paper, and when by his father's 

 orders paper was kept from him, he drew pictures 

 on the walls of the house and in the dust that lay 

 thick upon the pavement of the old courtyard of 

 his home. 



