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temporary paintings of young ladies who lived nearly as 

 long before Cleopatra as she lived before us. And it is 

 still more remarkable that those young ladies were " got 

 up " in the same style, and apparently aimed at much the 

 same effects of line and movement, as those which have 

 become the latest fashion in Paris, and may be described 

 as sinuous and serpentine. Not only is that the case, but 



Fig. 30. — A further portion of the same group as that shown in Fig. 29. 

 In front is a small deer-lilce animal. 



it is evident that the painter of Knossos, the Minotaur 

 city, and M. Boldini have experienced the same artistic 

 impression, and have presented in their pictures the same 

 significance of pose and the same form, from the tip of 

 the nose to the ends of the fingers and the points of the 

 toes — thus revealing a sympathy reaching across many 

 ages. It seems to me that the same artistic impression 

 is to be detected in the still earlier paintings of the wasp- 



