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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1897
Page
4
The twenty first birthday of Princess Osra prompts King Rudolf to hire the famed painter Giraldo of Verona. He paints a portrait admired for its fidelity and beauty, boosting Giraldo’s reputation as foreign princes seek miniatures of the princess.
Giraldo, the gifted painter, profits from Osra's beauty to charm patrons across Europe. He paints multiple portraits for power and money, while secretly keeping a perfect likeness for himself and turning a sinister counterfeit into a devil’s face. Osra confronts the painter as the truth of his treachery and passion comes to light.
Princess Osra watches Signor Giraldo descend into madness as he destroys painted portraits including a true likeness of her. The king Rudolf enters with fury, but Osra urges mercy and Giraldo, inspired, finishes a final portrait before collapse. She later destroys the ruined works, preserves the last painting, and the tale ends with embassies resumed and Osra lamenting the painter's fate.
Harper's Weekly notes the Royal Academy grants status by rank and display while praising nonacademician skill. It cites stories in paintings and admires George Boughton for vivid color and refined drawing as American representation is deemed limited this year.
The body of a man about 30 was found atop Mount Morris park's Mound with a bullet hole in the head and a revolver nearby. He had been dead five or six hours as hundreds of children played around the area. The paragraph notes a wife’s death followed by her own action.
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