The Art of the Pitti Palace With a Short History of the Building of the Palace
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And the result is so inexpressibly lovely that " Men have excused him, " as Browning has expressed it, describing the painter sitting in one of his moods of conjugal religion, adoring his Lucrezia's outward appearance, and interpreting his emotions as spiritual, — a common mistake among people who have the artistic temperament in an unhealthy degree : " Let my hands frame your face in your hair's gold, You beautiful Lucrezia that art mine ! Raphael did this — Andrea painted that — The Roman's i...s the better when you pray, But still, the other's Virgin was his wife — Men will excuse me. " 1 And again : " You smile? Why, there's my picture ready made ! There's what we painters call our harmony ! . . . So, keep looking so, My serpentining beauty, rounds on rounds ! " iso XTbe Hrt of tbe pitti palace Artists laboured much for the churches in those days, and often received small equivalent for their time and thought. For painting a Pieta at the Ser- vite Convent, Andrea was paid in a bunch of votive candles.
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