Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0410 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"I Said Fra Pandolf by Design"
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The idea
The Duke explains that he named the painter deliberately, because strangers never read that pictured countenance without asking. He controls who sees the portrait and what they are told about it. In life she was looked at by others; in paint she is shown only when he chooses.
In practice
He controls who may look.
Where people slip
The control is the point, not the art.
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