The poem's origin probably lies in ... a painting in the Pitti Palace in Florence, then supposed to be del Sarto's protrait of himself and his wife; it is now known to be two portraits joined together, is no longer attributed to del Sarto, is not thought to depict the painter or his wife, and has been relegated to storage.
From the Editor's note to Robert Browning's 'Andrea del Sarto' (Yale edition).
This appears at the beginning of A rich full death by Michael Dibdin, a mystery I've just finished that was quite good. Written as a series of letters by an expat American back home about his involvement with Robert Browning in solving a series of murders in Florence, it's in the style of 19th letters that, well, didn't follow Strunk and White's first rule of style, which is "Omit needless words."
Also, I just saw Conversations with other women, which was quite good. It's almost completely a dialog between Helen Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckart.
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