This
paper explains that Robert Browning's poems "My Last Duchess" and "The Bishop Ordering His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church", both dramatic
monologues that take in the 16
Th century,
portray a large discrepancy between the outer images and the inner character. The author points out that Browning, who was interested in how people lived during the Renaissance, supposedly a period of great artistic and spiritual enlightenment saw that people in the 16th century were just as greedy, egotistical and
materialistic as people in the 19th century. The paper reveals that, the dark
truth behind both the paintings is, that regardless of their station in life or how good, kind or saintly they portray themselves, a beautiful object may conceal an ugly truth. Long quotes.