However that might be, and perhaps because the abundance of impressions which he, for some time past, had been receiving-though, indeed, they had come to him rather through the channel of his appreciation of music-had enriched his appetite for painting as well, it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct, that Swann remarked Odette's resemblance to the Zipporah of that Alessandro de Mariano, to whom one shrinks from giving his more popular surname, now that 'Botticelli' suggests not so much the actual work of the Master as that false and banal conception of it which has of late obtained common currency.
Edozein modutara ere, eta, beharbada, aspaldi samarretik sentitzen zuèn zentzumenezko betetasun hark, nahiz eta gehienbat musikatik zetorkiona izan, pinturarako bere jaidura ere aberastua ziolako, sakonagoa izan zen plazera, eta eragin iraunkorragokoa Swannentzat, une hartan Odettek Sandro di Marino-ren obrako Zeforarekin ageri zuèn antzekotasunean mamiturik zekusana, halaxe baitzeritzan, izan ere, berez Botticelli gaitzizen herrikoiaz ezagunagoa den artista hari, izengoitiak hobeto adierazten baitu, nonbait, ez pintorearen benetako obra, baina bai haren pertsonaz zabaldua den ideia hutsal eta faltsua.