According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

According to Vasari, antique art was central to the rebirth of Italian art.

According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense of three-dimensionality.

According to Vasari, at their prompting in 1423 Masaccio travelled to Rome with Masolino: from that point he was freed of all Gothic and Byzantine influence, as may be seen in his altarpiece for the Carmelite Church in Pisa.

According to Vasari, all Florentine painters studied his frescoes extensively in order to " learn the precepts and rules for painting well ".

According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice " despite the tears of his mother ".

According to Vasari, Raphael's premature death on Good Friday ( April 6, 1520 ), which was possibly his 37th birthday, was caused by a night of excessive sex with Luti, after which he fell into a fever and, not telling his doctors that this was its cause, was given the wrong cure, which killed him.

According to Vasari, who was not only the architect of the Uffizi but also the author of Lives of the Artists, published in 1550 and 1568, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo gathered at the Uffizi " for beauty, for work and for recreation.

According to Vasari, the church was designed by Giovanni Pisano.

According to Leonardo's contemporary, Giorgio Vasari, "... after he had lingered over it four years, left it unfinished ...." Leonardo, later in his life, is said to have regretted " never having completed a single work ".

According to Giorgio Vasari, shortly after the installation of his Pietà Michelangelo overheard ( or asked visitors about the sculptor ) someone remark that it was the work of another sculptor, Cristoforo Solari, whereupon Michelangelo signed the sculpture.

According to the historian Richard Goldthwaite, Vasari was one of the earliest authors to use the word " competition " ( or " concorrenza " in Italian ) in its economic sense.

According to Vasari, Andrea resolved never to touch the brush again because Leonardo, his pupil, had far surpassed him, but later critics consider this story apocryphal.

According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there.

According to Vasari, the statue stood on a column designed by Desiderio da Settignano in the middle of the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici ; an inscription seems to have explained the statue's significance as a political monument: " Victor est quisquis patriam tuetur / Frangit immanis Deus hostis iras / En puer grandem domuit tiramnum / Vincite cives " ( The victor is whoever defends the fatherland.

According to his biographer Giorgio Vasari, he was in charge of construction of the cathedral of the city, for which he provided the statues once decorating the lower part of the façade destroyed in 1589.

According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he is placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters.

According to Vasari, " This casting, which is admirable, acquired very great fame and repute for him by reason of the proportion and grace that it shows in all its parts ; and whosoever observes this work well can see that the design is good, and that the craftsman was a man of judgment and of practised ability.

According to the art historian Giorgio Vasari, Botticelli was a partisan of Savonarola: " he was so ardent a partisan that he was thereby induced to desert his painting, and, having no income to live on, fell into very great distress.

According to Vasari, the young Italian architect Filippo Brunelleschi had designed an unusually large and heavy dome for Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral ( Duomo ) in Florence, Italy.

According to Vasari, " The work was carried out in extremely uncomfortable conditions, from his having to work with his head tilted upwards ".

According to Giorgio Vasari:

According to Giorgio Vasari, his best pupils were Giovanni dal Lione, Raffaellino dal Colle, Benedetto Pagni, Figurino da Faenza, Giovanni Battista Bertani and his brother Rinaldo, and Fermo Guisoni.

According to Giorgio Vasari, Ginevra de ' Benci was also included in the fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Visitation of Mary and Elizabeth in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, but it is now believed that Vasari made a mistake and that Ghirlandaio painted Giovanna Tornabuoni.

According to music writer Piero Scaruffi, the disco phenomenon spread quickly because the " collective ecstasy " of disco was cathartic and regenerative and led to freedom of expression.

According to some interpretations, John VIII would be also portrayed in Piero della Francesca's Flagellation.

According to his book, " I Am Jackie Chan ", one of the reasons Chan excelled was because he had been " adopted " by Yu, at the request of his parents.

According to Heartz, the young van Swieten had " excelled in his studies " and was fluent in many languages.

According to the INTERCAL manual, " the aim in designing INTERCAL was to have no precedents ", supposedly neither in flow control features, nor in data manipulation operators.

According to Russell Swanson of Swanson Equipment, In 1950 in the small town of Stevens Point, WI who had specialized in the manufacturing of bars for taverns had said " Im most proud of designing and building that first salad bar ".

According to Carbide, " in designing the plant's safety systems, a chemical reaction of this magnitude was not factored in " because " the tank's gas storage system was designed to automatically prevent such a large amount of water from being inadvertently introduced into the system " and " process safety systems — in place and operational — would have prevented water from entering the tank by accident ".

According to a letter written by John Whitmer and Phelps, proslavery Missourians responded with an outraged manifesto, in which Mormons were decried as "... deluded fanatics, or weak and designing knaves ..." and so forth.

According to the article, the main difficulty in designing the HF-3 involved violent trans-sonic vibrations damaging missile parts ; advances in materials science allowed extensive miniaturization of the HF-3 system.

According to Endy, the prospects of synthetic biology will allow programming living organisms in the same way a computer scientist program a software and computer, designing and making a disposable biological system and a manufacturing platform, even one ’ s own offspring or own copy with improved traits such as to prevent occurrence of disease, and bypassing evolution.

According to another source, Alter's focus changed in 1961 to designing an easily beached fibreglass catamaran.

According to Procopius, it was carried through the streets of Constantinople during Belisarius ' triumphal procession.

According to some sources, after his triumphal entry into the city, Allenby raised his sword in salute to the famous statue of Saladin and proudly declared " Today the wars of the Crusaders are completed.

According to the current view, this refers to the usurper Joannes ( r. 423 – 425 ), while according to the supporters of the traditional view, it indicates the gate's construction as a free-standing triumphal arch in 388 – 391 to commemorate the defeat of the usurper Magnus Maximus ( r. 385 – 388 ), and which was only later incorporated into the Theodosian Walls.

According to an 1826 article submitted by a person well-versed in local history identifying himself as W. Reader, there was already a well-established tradition before his time that there was a certain tailor who had taken a peek at Lady Godiva, and that at the annual Trinity Great Fair ( now called the Godiva Festival ) featuring the Godiva processions " a grotesque figure called Peeping Tom " would be set on display, and it was a wooden statue carved from oak.

According to Noonan, Pope Innocent wanted his favorites to be distinct and recognizable in the lengthy processions at the council.

According to The Review of Marches and Parades in Scotland by Sir John Orr, of the 338 notified processions in Glasgow in 2003 nearly 85 % were from Orange organisations ( Orr 2005, p. 67 ).