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Massachusetts native Millet served as a drummer boy and as a surgical assistant in the Civil War before traveling to Italy to study art. Here, he imagined the beginning of a celebrated love story in the history of Italian Renaissance art (one immortalized in Robert Browning’s poem of 1855): the moment in which the painter-monk Filippo Lippi and nun Lucrezia Buti fell in love while she posed for his painting of the Virgin. (The two would elope and have two children, including the artist Filippino Lippi.) Millet’s own life would have a sadly romantic end: the painter died during the sinking of the Titanic.
EEB, 2008
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