The Mentor: The Wife in Art, Vol. 1, Num. 28, Serial No. 28

The Mentor
“A wise and Faithful Guide and Friend”
Vol. 1 No. 28
LUCREZIA FEDI— ANDREA DEL SARTO
LUCREZIA BUTI— FRA FILIPPO LIPPI
HELENA FOURMENT— RUBENS
SASKIA VAN ULENBURG— REMBRANDT
MARIA RUTHVEN— VAN DYCK
ELIZABETH SIDDAL— ROSSETTI
By GUSTAV KOBBÉ
It may be that he who rides alone rides fastest; and that the man encumbered with wife and family feels his pace slacken and the goal as far away as ever. Andrea (ahn´-dree-ah) del Sarto, in the closing lines of Browning’s poem, utters the same thought. He is addressing his wife, Lucrezia Fedi, whose extravagant and wayward tastes, many think, ruined his career and prevented his ranking with Leonardo (lay-o-nar´-do), Raphael (rah´-fay-ell), and Angelo (ahn´-jel-o):
In heaven, perhaps, new chances, one more chance—