have joyfully accepted the will of God, and the tranquil Sabbath calm
of those who are lovingly consecrated to the service of the Highest.
The movement and the changing course of life, the energy of passion
and action concern him not."--`Outlines of the History of Art'.
By Dr. Wilh. Luebke.

236. Lorenzo Monaco: a monk of the order of Camaldoli;
a conservative artist of the time, who adhered to the manner
of Taddeo Gaddi and his disciples, but Fra Angelico appears likewise
to have influenced him.

238. Flower o' the pine, etc.: this snatch of song applies
to what he has just been talking about: you have your own notions
of art, and I have mine.

276. Tommaso Guidi (1401-1428), better known as Masaccio,
i.e., Tommasaccio, Slovenly or Hulking Tom. "From his time,
and forward," says Mr. Ernest Radford (B. S. Illustrations),
"religious painting in the old sense was at an end. Painters no longer
attempted to transcend nature, but to copy her, and to copy her
in her loveliest aspects. The breach between the old order and the new
was complete." The poet makes him learn of Lippi, not,
as Vasari states, Lippi of him.

"When Browning wrote this poem, he knew that the mastership or pupilship
of Fra Lippo to Masaccio (called `Guidi' in the poem), and vice versa,
was a moot point; but in making Fra Lippi the master,
he followed the best authority he had access to, the last edition
of Vasari, as he stated in a Letter to the `Pall Mall' at the time,
in answer to M. Etienne {a writer in the `Revue des deux Mondes'.}
Since then, he finds that the latest enquirer into the subject,
Morelli, believes the fact is the other way, and that Fra Lippo
was the pupil."--B. Soc. Papers, Pt. II, p. 160.

The letter to the `Pall Mall Gazette' I have not seen.
M. Etienne's Article is in Tome 85, pp. 704-735, of the `Revue des
Deux Mondes', 1870, and the letter probably appeared soon after
its publication. What edition of Vasari is referred to,
in the above note, as the last, is uncertain; but in Vasari's
own editions of 1550 and 1568, and in Mrs. Foster's translation, 1855,
Lippi is made the pupil, and not the master, of Masaccio.

323. Saint Laurence: suffered martyrdom in the reign of
the Emperor Valerian, A.D. 258. He was broiled to death on a gridiron.

327. Already not one phiz of your three slaves. . .but's scratched:
the people are so indignant at what they are doing,
in the life-like picture.

336. That is--: he fe