Giorgio Vasari

“ Jacopo, called l’Indaco, was a disciple of Domenico del Ghirlandajo, and worked in Eome with Pinturicchio: he was a tolerably good master in his day, and, although he brought but few works to completion, yet those few are abundantly worthy of commendation. It cannot, however, be any matter of astonishment, that few works only proceeded from the hands of this artist, since he, being a facetious merry fellow, and a lover of good cheer, who harboured few serious thoughts, would never work but when he was compelled to do so. ”

“ It was his custom to declare that “labouring and toiling for ever, without giving one’s self a taste of pleasure in this world, was not fit for a Christian man.” [2] Jacopo lived in very close intimacy with Michelagnolo, for when that master, excellent above all that ever lived, desired to recreate himself, after the continued studies and perpetual fatigues to which he subjected both mind and body, there was no one more acceptable to him, or more after his own heart, than Jacopo l’Indaco. ”

“ This artist laboured many years in Rome, or, to be more exact, he lived many years in Rome, but laboured there very little: the first chapel to the right of the entrance in the church of Sant’ Agostino, as you enter by the door of the principal front, was painted by his hand. ”