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Essay Archive - Andrea del Sarto: A Statement Worthy of Examination
Andrea del Sarto: A Statement Worthy of Examination
The bittersweet poem Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning is the
story of a painter who, with un-Godly amounts of talent, never fulfills his
potential in becoming a great, prolific painter, in the exalted ranks of
Raphael. Browning attributes this to del Sarto’s wife, as is the case with
most women, she binds del Sarto with “love,” thus oppressing him from his
destiny, which is to become one of the world’s finest artists. Andrea del
Sarto, one of, if not, the finest poems ev....
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