human
; the bishop of St Praxed's piteously bargaining on his death-bed for the jasper and lapislazuli
gpt
; the duke of the _Last Duchess_ displaying his wife's portrait as the wonder of his gallery, and unconcernedly disposing of her person. In a single poem only Browning touches those problems of the artist life which were to occupy him in the 'Fifties; and the _Pictor Ignotus_ is as far behind the _Andrea del_ _Sarto_ and _Fra Lippo Lippi_ in intellectual force as in dramatic brilliance and plasticity. Browning's sanguine and energetic temperament always inclined him to over-emphasis, and he has somewhat over-emphasised the anæmia of this anæmic soul. Rarely again did he paint in such resolute uniformity of ashen grey. The
human
Pictor