The English Romantic poet, Lord Byron, wrote that the artist, “Spagnoletto [the little Spaniard] tainted / His brush with all the blood of all the sainted” (Don Juan , xiii. 71).
The English Romantic poet, Lord Byron, wrote that the artist, “Spagnoletto [the little Spaniard] tainted / His brush with all the blood of all the sainted” (Don Juan , xiii. 71).