Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ Experience has sufficiently proved that from one sole germ, the genius and industry of men, aided by the influences of time, will frequently elicit many fruits, and thus it happened in the aforesaid monastery of the Angeli, of which the monks were ever remarkable for their attainments in the arts of design and painting. ”
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ DON LORENZO, PAINTER, MONK OF THE ANGELI OF FLORENCE. [1] [first noticed as a painter. 1410—died....] It appears to me that permission to pursue some honourable occupation must needs prove a great solace to a good and upright man who has taken monastic vows. Music, letters, painting, or any other liberal, or even mechanical art, involving nothing blameable, but rather, useful to others, as well as satisfactory to himself ”
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ Two very beautiful books, by the same monks, were indeed formerly in that cathedral, where they probably still remain. There are, moreover, many specimens of ancient embroideries, worked in a very beautiful manner, preserved in the same monastery of the Angeli. These also were done by the ancient fathers of that place, [15] while they were shut up in perpetual seclusion, not bearing the name of monks, but that of hermits, and never coming forth from their convents any more than do the nuns and sisters of our own days. ”
