“But so fair,
She takes the breath of men away
Who gaze upon her unaware.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author
Bianca Among the Nightingales http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=3035&poem=127031, st. 12 (1862).
“What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IX The Practice of Painting
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