Monna Lisa

— This young artist [Frederic Leighton] is one of [Luigi] Lanzi’s and [Giorgio] Vasari’s men. He has plainly drunk long and eagerly at the Painter’s Castaly: the fount of beauty and of grace that assuaged the thirst of those who painted the “Monna Lisa” and the “Belle Gardinière;” who modelled the “Horned Moses” and the “Slave;” who designed Peter’s great Basilica, and the [Lorenzo] Ghiberti Gates at Florence.