Andrea del Sarto (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Browning
- First Published: 1855
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
- Subjects: Husbands, Wives, Europe or Europeans, Art or artists, Marriage, Adultery, Painting or painters, Pictures, Afterlife, Italy or Italians, Renaissance
The Poem
“Andrea del Sarto” is a meandering poem of 267 lines in blank verse, broken unevenly into three stanzas of 243, 23, and 1 line(s). The title identifies the subject of the poem, Andrea del Sarto, a distinguished artist of the Florentine School of painting. The poem is written in the first person, the speaker being Andrea, not Robert Browning. Andrea, conversing with his silent wife, Lucrezia, reflects on his life and art, thereby dramatically revealing his moral and aesthetic failure.
The poem begins with Andrea’s placative request to Lucrezia to sit with...
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