Giorgio Vasari

“ GALASSO GALASSI, PAINTER, OF FERRARA. [1]
[born about 1438—died 1488.]
When foreigners execute works of art in a city wherein there are no native artists of eminence, this circumstance constantly awakens the genius of some one among the citizens, who afterwards labours, by the study of that art, to make such progress that his native city shall no longer require to invite strangers (who afterwards bear away the wealth of the place,) for the execution of embellishments. ”

“ Galasso always lived in a very creditable manner, and constantly proved himself courteous and obliging, which perhaps proceeded from his having been more accustomed to work in other and foreign cities than in his own. It is true that, from not being very regular in his mode of life, he did not attain to a much advanced age, departing in his fiftieth year, or thereabouts, to the life that has no end. ”

“ He was consequently soon afterwards appointed to execute certain works in Santa Maria del Monte, a monastery of Black Friars, [4] outside the city of Bologna, and likewise painted various pictures in fresco without the gate of San Mammolo. At the Casa di Mezzo, [5] moreover, which is situate on the same road, the Church was painted in fresco by his hand with stories from the Old Testament. ”