It is impossible to consider these fine, compact exhibitions devoted to Andrea del Sarto without recalling the eponymous poem by Robert Browning with which the Florentine painter has been lastingly stuck, given its compulsively quotable lines—"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?" That snippet managed to wedge itself firmly into the public consciousness, even if the rest of the poem—which depicts an ambitionless, henpecked del Sarto who has failed to exploit his own remarkable genius—hasn't had the same reach.
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