... black and hog-like bestiality, and fox and wolf-like cunning and ferocity with wicked human thought and self-command, which Raphael has enshrinedin that splendid harmony of scarlet silk and crimson ... horses and the clash of hurtling armour and the yells of the combatants we suddenly hear the nasal sing-song ofFlorentine tripe-vendors and pumpkin-pod-sellers, the chaffer and oaths and laughter ... white-turbaned Turks, with oddly bunched-up trousers and jewelledcaftans, and half-naked, oak-crowned youths, like genii descended, pensive and wondering, from someantique sarcophagus, and dapper...