title: Art of Drawing: Drawing Pets: Dogs, cats, horses and other animals
author:  Giovanni Civardi 
description: GIOVANNI CIVARDI was born in Milan in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus.
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  Daniel Deronda: A Conversation
  
  
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  # Daniel Deronda: A Conversation
  
  
  ### By Henry James
  
  
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  Etext by Ian Hillman
  
  
  THEODORA, one day early in the autumn, sat on her piazza with a piece
  
  
  of embroidery, the design of which she invented as she proceeded, being
  
  
  careful, however, to have a Japanese screen before her, to keep her
  
  
  inspiration at the proper altitude. Pulcheria, who was paying her a
  
  
  visit, sat near her with a closed book, in a paper cover, in her lap.
  
  
  Pulcheria was playing with the little dog, rather idly, but Theodora
  
  
  was stitching, steadily and meditatively. “Well,” said Theodora, at
  
  
  last, “I wonder what he accomplished in the East.” Pulcheria took the
  
  
  little dog into her lap and made him sit on the book. “Oh,” she
  
  
  replied, “they had tea-parties at Jerusalem,—-exclusively of
  
  
  ladies,—-and he s