... one bearing a ticket in the handwriting of Stradivarius, in which his name, his age, and the date of the violin were given. He was then ninety-two years old, and the date of the violin was 1736. ... west, the Cathedral, with its tall campanile, rose dark against the sky, and what a sky! full of clear sun in the morning,full of pure heat all day, and bathed with ineffable tints in the cool of ... One of his paintings,entitled " ;The Women of Siena, 1553," shows the women of that city working on the fortifications intended toresist the besieging army of Charles V., and another...