See, how they kiss and court! See not your bride in these unreverent robes : Go to my chamber ; put on clothes of mine. O, very well ; I have perused the note. Kauffman on the other hand followed the conventions of eighteenth-century Neoclassical painting that dictated that scenes from antiquity were represented in an idealised manner. Silvia was locked into her tower every night, but Valentine was to come with a ladder of ropes, by which he could climb up and help her to descend.
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