From the March 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1795, the German Romantic poet Friedrich von Matthisson visited the studio of the famous Swiss painter Angelica Kauffman in Rome. Kauffman, Matthisson reported, liked poetry to be read aloud to her while she worked. One morning, they heard a poem by Goethe, and Kauffman dropped her brush. ‘The entire being of the quiet…
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