Giorgio Vasari

“ Receiving great pleasure from painting and sculpture, he could not fail to have an interest in mosaic also; and perceiving that Gherardo, then a painter of miniatures, and a man of much ingenuity, was inquiring into the difficulties of that art, Lorenzo, as one who constantly assisted those in whom he found the germ of genius, favoured him greatly ”

“ Having thus, from a master in miniatures, become a painter, as we have said, Gherardo, in addition to the works already mentioned, prepared a large cartoon, with figures of great size, for those of the Evangelists, which he was to execute in mosaic, in the chapel of San Zanobi ”

“ See also Bastard's costly Avork on miniature painting, published in Paris, &c. On the suppression of this convent by the French GoA^ernment, the miniatures Avere in many instances cut from the books; in others, books and illuminations Avere destroyed together. ↑ It has been generally agreed, among the annotators on our author, to accept these dates as an intimation of the time about Avhich the works ot the master ceased to appear, or sometimes as that of his death; but this cannot here be the case, since the mosaics of the chapel of San Zanobi were not commenced until somewhere about 1490 ”