You remember, Dorsenne, those two canvases by Pier delta Francesca, which are at Florence, Duc Federigo d'Urbino and his wife Battista Sforza.

Did you not see them in the same room with La Calomnie by Botticelli, with a landscape in the background?
It is drawn like this," and he made a gesture with his thumb, "and that is what I am trying to obtain, the necessary curve on which all faces depend.

There is no better painter in Italy." "And Titian and Raphael ?" interrupted Madame Steno.
"And the Sienese and the Lorenzetti, of whom you once raved?
You wrote to me of them, with regard to my article on your exposition of 'eighty-six; do you remember ?" inquired the writer.
"Raphael ?" replied Maitland....

"Do you wish me to tell you what Raphael really was?
A sublime builder.

And Titian?
A sublime upholsterer.