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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Italian painter whose works, including a fresco cycle of the life of John the Baptist, epitomize Florentine classicism.
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Andrea Vanucchi, commonly called Andrea del Sarto, from the occupation of his father, who was a tailor (in Italian, _sarto_), was born at
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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Andrea was born in Florence, in the year 1478, to a father who was all his life a tailor; whence he was always called Andrea del Sarto by everyone.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 05 ( of 10) Andrea da Fiesole to Lorenzo Lotto Giorgio Vasari 1542
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He was a distant cousin of Miss Barrett, and a friend of Robert Browning, who dedicated to him his volume of 'Dramatic Romances,' besides writing and sending to him 'Andrea del Sarto' as a substitute for a print of the painter's portrait which he had been unable to find.
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'Andrea del Sarto' as a substitute for a print of the painter's portrait which he had been unable to find.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898
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"Andrea del Sarto," "In a Balcony," "Saul," "A Grammarian's Funeral," to mention only ten now almost universally known, did not at once obtain a national popularity for the author.
Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880
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In such poems as "Abt Vogler," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," we are conscious not so much of music and pictures as of the secret springs of failure, the divine despairs and discontents, the aspirations, the creative ecstasies, of the men who wrought in these realms.
Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850
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Robert Browning put it well when he wrote in Andrea del Sarto, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Robert Browning put it well when he wrote in Andrea del Sarto, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Robert Browning put it well when he wrote in Andrea del Sarto, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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Robert Browning put it well when he wrote in Andrea del Sarto, "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
David Finkle: First Nighter: Tony Kushner's Intelligent Homosexual's Guide... Continues Genius Display David Finkle 2011
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