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Browning's painters.(Robert Browning)(Critical essay)
From: Yearbook of English Studies
Date: 20060101
Author:Lerner, Laurence
This essay examines all Browning's poems about paintings in order to explore his (not always consistent) view of art history, particularly of the importance of Greek sculpture and mythology in later centuries, and of how medieval painting changed into that of the Renaissance. Discussion of Pictor Ignotus and (especially) of Andrea de Sarto has often been influenced by psychoanalytic thinking, but the problems in applying psychoanalysis to poems have not always been recognized. Finally, a discussion of One Word More enables us to explore Browning's (or his wife's) uneasiness with ...
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