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WOMAN IN ART the ideal, and to express his art instinct; all these powers within man were responsible for the new day, as they are today for the centuries to come.

To the end of Raphael's short life, the centuries had bloomed with increasingly refined and ennobling art. His "Sappho" is a pronounced type of his ideal of the poet. His Madonnas express for us his highest thought of spiritual influence on womanhood. 57