Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ Andrea di Cosimo was the best and most worthy man that ever touched a pencil; modest and diffident by nature, he would never undertake any ivork above his strength, or even any indeed that was entirely on his own responsibility, partly because he feared to risk the payment for his labours. He delighted in his vocation, and would pursue it the whole day long, but abhorred all disputes and discussions of every kind ”
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ THE PAINTERS, MORTO DA FELTRO AND ANDREA DI COSIMO DE’ FELTRINI, OF FLORENCE. The painter, Morto da Feltro, [1] was a man of great eccentricity in his mode of life as well as of thinking, and equally singular was he in his inventions and in the arabesques which he executed, and which caused him to be very much esteemed. This artist repaired to Rome in early youth, and at the time when Pinturicchio was painting the papal apartments for Pope Alexander VI., with the Loggie and lower rooms in the great tower of the Castello Sant’ Angelo, as well as certain of the upper chambers therein. ”
Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters… (1850)
“ But in his fame this master will never be dead, seeing that those who execute works of art for eternity, and have these to serve as their memorial after their own departure, are prevented by these their labours from, becoming the prey of death, because the gratitude of the historian supplies a perpetual testimony to their life and merits ”
