But you do not meet the originals of the words, the cartoons, or the marble, in Oxford Street or St.James's.

All these, to return to Raphael, are the creatures of the idea in the artist's mind.
This idea is not inborn, it has come from an intense study.

But that study has been of the ideal that can be raised from the positive and the actual into grandeur and beauty.

The commonest model becomes full of exquisite suggestions to him who has formed this idea; a Venus of flesh and blood would be vulgarised by the imitation of him who has not.
When asked where he got his models, Guido summoned a common porter from his calling, and drew from a mean original a head of surpassing beauty.
It resembled the porter, but idealised the porter to the hero.

It was true, but it was not real.