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Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo fully titled Sigismunda mourning over the Heart of Guiscardo her murder’d Husband is an oil painting by British artist William Hogarth. Finished in 1759 it was the principal piece of the eight works he displayed in an exhibition in 1761. It was the final and most ambitious of his attempts to secure for himself a reputation as a genre painter. It depicts a dramatic moment in one of the novelle in Boccaccio’s Decameron.
