Reviewing ‘Raphael: Sublime Poetry’ at the Met

A meal largely of hors d’oeuvres and leftovers.

Yonder’s a work now, of that famous youth
The Urbinate who died five years ago.
(’Tis copied, George Vasari sent it me.)
Well, I can fancy how he did it all,
Pouring his soul, with kings and popes to see,
Reaching, that heaven might so replenish him,
Above and through his art—for it gives way

— from “Andrea del Sarto” by Robert Browning