Giorgio Vasari

“ From Florence, Pietro went to Pisa, where, on the facade of the Campo Santo, and beside the principal door, he painted stories from the lives of the Holy Fathers, with so much vivacity of expression and grace of attitude, that he fully equalled Giotto, and obtained high reputation. Some of these heads, whether as regards design or colouring, exhibit a life-like character, which could not be surpassed by anything of which the manner of those times was capable. From Pisa, Laurati departed to Pistoja, where he painted a picture in distemper for the church of San Francesco ”

“ The countenances of a choir of angels, hovering in the air about the Virgin, and with light movements appearing to sing as they float around her, express a gladness truly angelic and divine, the eyes more particularly; which, while these angels are sounding their various instruments, all turn towards another choir of angels, who, supported on a cloud in the form of a “ gloria,” bear the Madonna to heaven, all exhibiting the most beautiful attitudes, and surrounded by rainbows. ”

“ Pietro Laurati, [2] an excellent Sienese painter, had ample experience in the course of his life of the great happiness derived by the truly distinguished in art, from the knowledge that their works are prized and sought for by all men, whether in their own country or in foreign lands. ”