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, Piero excelled in designing pageants and triumphal processions for the pleasure-loving youths of Florence, and gives a vivid description of one such procession at the end of the carnival of 1507, which illustrated the triumph of death.

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 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 Fuller, as quoted in Wood biography Nightmare of Ecstasy ( 1992 ), she first met Ed Wood when she attended a casting call with a friend for a movie he was supposed to direct called Behind Locked Doors: it has also been stated that they met in a restaurant.

According to Fouquet, the director's tasks included overseeing the erecting of a stage and scenery ( there were no permanent, purpose-built theatre structures at this time, and performances of vernacular drama mostly took place in the open air ), casting and directing the actors ( which included fining them for those that infringed rules ), and addressing the audience at the beginning of each performance and after each intermission.

According to historian Diana Muir writing in Reflections in Bullough's Pond, it was in Collinsville that Elisha Root invented the important industrial technique of die casting.

According to this principle the candidates are elected out of the casting, so that there are only two candidates left.

According to Jon Krampner's biography Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley, Forbes and Attenborough had initially encountered difficulty in casting the role of Myra.

Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. According to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the role in Goldfinger, which resulted in director Guy Hamilton casting the role to an older actor to make Leiter more of an American " M ".

According to Amy Silverson, he was " best known in Congress as a perpetual naysayer, casting votes against almost all spending programs.

According to various casting sheets, Hayley's last name is " Ziktor " ( a reference to Karl Ziktor, also known as Grimlord, a reference to VR Troopers ), though it was never mentioned on the show.

According to an interview on Top Gear, Fiennes was considered for the role of James Bond during the casting process, making it to the final six contenders, but was rejected by Cubby Broccoli for having " hands too big and a face like a farmer ", and Roger Moore was eventually chosen.

According to Pomponius, a lawyer who lived during the 2nd century AD, the position of tresviri monetalis was established in 289 BC, but this date seems to be far too early, and if they did not come into existence during the Second Punic War, the formation of a formal college may not have occurred until some time after 200 BC The three members of this committee were officially known as the " tres viri aere argento auro flando feriundo " (" the three men responsible for casting and striking bronze, silver and gold "), a lengthy title that was almost always abbreviated to " III. V. A. A. A. F. F .".

According to Caine, he was extremely nervous during his screen test for the part of Bromhead, and director Cy Endfield told him that it was the worst screen test he had ever seen, but they were casting Caine in the part anyway because the production was leaving for South Africa shortly and they hadn't found anyone else for the role.

According to series creator Aaron Sorkin, casting for C. J.

" According to Raheja, Kapadia's casting in Dil Chahta Hai and Leela, in which she played " an older woman who is the object of a younger man's affection " served as " a kind of tribute to her eternal beauty.

According to an interview on The Howard Stern Show, director Jon Favreau considered casting him as the titular character in Iron Man as the studio was initially hesitant to work with Robert Downey, Jr., who had been considered for his role in The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

According to the Free Press, The Blade took exception to an editorial cartoon criticizing The Blade stance on downtown development plans by Rave Cinemas and Hollywood Casino Toledo ; The Blade cited the cartoon among the grounds for its lawsuit: " On or about August 21, 2011, Pounds ... permitted Toledo Free Press to publish a cartoon that depicted a characterization of John R. Block and Allan Block together with The Blade as casting an eclipsing shadow on jobs, tax revenue, investment and development in Toledo, Ohio.

According to DiMeo himself, he was invited to join the cast of EM: HE because the casting department was amused by his " grumpy " demeanor on the day of his audition.

According to the Cast Metals Federation website, an alternative casting method is to heat-dry the molded sand before pouring the molten metal.

In March 2005, India TV released a video, allegedly showing Shakti Kapoor asking for sexual favor from an undercover reporter posing as an aspiring actress, in return for entry into the film industry. Where he told the undercover reporter " I want to make love to you .... kiss you " According to India TV, this was a sting operation to expose the phenomenon of casting couch prevalent in Bollywood.

According to McCutcheon, Tiffany's original character outline, as described by the casting directors, portrayed her as a " feisty and quite bitchy character, quite worldly.

According to her interview for the 2006 DVD release, she auditioned for the role under an assumed name so that the casting agent was not aware of the relation.

According to Lucy O ' Brien in her book Madonna: Like an Icon, the video was brought together after a " huge casting call " in Los Angeles where hundreds of different sorts of dancers appeared.