Giorgio Vasari

“ Marco always lived a joyous life, and denied himself no reasonable gratification; he had neither rivalry nor opposition to contend with from the artists of his vocation, and being in the highest favour with the nobles of his adopted country, he received very large remuneration for the works which he executed. Having attained to the age of fifty-six, he died of an ordinary malady in the year 1542. The Neapolitan painter, Giovanni Filippo Crescione, was a disciple of Marco. This artist has painted many pictures in company with his brother-in-law, Leonardo Castellani, and still continues to do so ”

“ If, when we see a particular place producing certain kinds of fruit which had not previously grown there, we admire and are rejoiced, much more may we feel thus when we discover a man of distinguished genius in a country wherein none of similar eminence in the same vocation had previously been remarked. ”

“ A vast number of works were executed by Marco, both in oil and fresco, and he displayed a larger amount of ability than was evinced in that country by any other artist exercising his vocation there during the same time with himself. ”