Giorgio Vasari

“ It is certain that the greatest injury a man can receive, is to be too early and too highly extolled, for such talent as he may display, in whatever may be his vocation, since these injudicious praises, inflating those who are the subject of them, serve as an impediment to their subsequent progress. ”

“ In the Valle also, he executed one of the interior façades, preparing the design moreover for the stables and upper garden, built by Andrea, Cardinal della Valle. In this work the divisions are formed by columns, with bases and capitals after the antique; and around the whole, by wayj of basement, Lorenzo arranged antique piers covered with sculptures: above these, but beneath certain large niches, to be further noticed hereafter, the artist constructed another frieze, consisting of fragments from the antique, and within the niches he placed marble statues, also spoils from the antique. ”

“ This happened from the fact that death having closed the eyes of Agostino and of Raphael likewise, almost at the same time, the carelessness of Agostino’s heirs permitted these statues to remain in the workshops of the artist, where they continued to stand during many years. It is true that they are now being fixed in their place on the tomb of Agostino in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo ”

“ Bernardino worked extremely well in oil also; he was a most obliging person, friendly and liberal in all his actions. To him, therefore, is deservedly due all the praise which belongs of right to those artists who do themselves no less honour by the courtesy of their manners, and the excellence of their lives, than by the distinction to which they attain in art. [16]
↑ Little Lorenzo, or Lawrence, that is to say, Lorenzetto being the diminutive of Lorenzo ”

“ A third work of Lorenzetto, representing a Dolphin bearing a dead child, was also executed after a model by Raphael. The marble group has disappeared, but a cast of it may be seen at Dresden. See Jahn, in the Kunstblatt, for 1837, No. 62. See also Passavant, Rafael von Urbino, vol. i. p. 240. ↑ Called the Madonna del Sasso, because the foot is placed on a stone. This figure has not the height attributed to it by Vasari. ↑ See Life of Paolo Pomano, vol. i. ↑ These statues are still in their place. ↑ The life of this artist follows. ”