Dramatic Monologue in Andrea Del Sarto Andrea Del Sarto is one of Browning's finest dramatic monologue. Like Fra Lippo Lippi, it presents a study of mind of an artist. The two painters, the two painters Fra and Andrea personify two different natures and temperament, and it is these that affect their art. Life affects art no less than art affects life. While the irrepresing zestful Fra produces works of art which are noteworthy for their vim and vigor, verve and vitality, the weak willed and infatuated husband, Andrea is proved to be technically perfect without the soaring grandeur of great art. Andrea's life and nature marred his art. Enamored of the beautiful Lucrezia, he married her only to realize that she was a ˜serpenting beauty', one who would not only be faithless as a serpent, but who would also smother the artist's soul in the fatal coil of her materialistic desire. The poem opens with Andrea pleading to his wife for a little consideration for him. He is too tired to paint now and promises to satisfy all the requirements of her lover friend who has commissioned him to paint a picture on the next day. Now he would like to sit in her company so that he could rise the next morning cheerful and fresh. He admires her beauty. She is like a moon to him and also to every one while she belongs to no one. Seeing her smile in that pose he can easily paint a picture because she possesses the harmony that a painter requires. The scene around them, his character, his problems are all subdued to the silver grey. "A common greyness silvers everything, All in a twilight ¦ And all that I have born to be and do A twilight peace.  Entrapped by her charm and mesmerized by her will, he follows her as ˜a bird, a flowers pipe'. He is trapped into misappropriating the money provided by the king of France and building a luxurious home for her. The lower he sinks in morality an