Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper is a short collection of English poems by Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...

, published in 1876. The collection marked Browning's first collection of short pieces for more than twelve years, and was well-received. The title poem, which ostensibly discusses the life and works of 15th Century Italian painter Giacomo Pacchiarotti

Giacomo Pacchiarotti

Giacomo Pacchiarotti, sometimes seen as Pacchiarotto was an Italian painter.-Life and Works:He was born in Siena, and worked there...

, is actually a thinly veiled attack on Browning's own critics, and many other pieces in the collection take the same tone.

Contents

• Prologue
• Of Pacchiarotto, and How He Worked in Distemper
• At the "Mermaid"
• House
• Shop
• Pisgah-Sights
• Fears and Scruples
• Natural Magic
• Magical Nature
• Bifurcation
• Numpholeptos
• Appearances
• St. Martin's Summer
• Hervé Riel
  Hervé Riel
  Hervé Riel was a French fisherman of the 17th century, from Le Croisic in Brittany. His claim to fame is that while serving with the French Navy he was instrumental in saving the French fleet following the battle of Barfleur in 1692...
  
  
• A Forgiveness
• Cenciaja
• Filippo Baldinucci
  Filippo Baldinucci
  Filippo Baldinucci was an Italian art historian and biographer.-Life:Baldinucci is considered among the most significant Florentine biographers/historians of the artists and the arts of the Baroque period...
  
  on the Privilege of Burial
• Epilogue