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 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 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 a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to this corporate election, God never chose individuals to elect to salvation, but rather He chose to elect the believing church to salvation.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

According to Eusebius, the Jerusalem church was scattered twice, in AD70 and AD135, with the difference that from 70-130 the bishops of Jerusalem have evidently Jewish names, whereas after 135 the bishops of Aelia Capitolina appear to be Greeks.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

According to the LDS church, Christ's unwavering ability to obey truth, perceive light, and act in perfect love and faith, distinguishes his pre-mortal existence from the pre-mortal existence of the other spirit beings who were in the presence of the " Eternal Father ".

According to the church historian Eusebius, the Quartodeciman Polycarp ( bishop of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist ) debated the question with Anicetus ( bishop of Rome ).

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to Bloch, other elements of society can be seen in feudal terms ; all the aspects of life were centered on " lordship ", and so we can speak usefully of a feudal church structure, a feudal courtly ( and anti-courtly ) literature, and a feudal economy.

According to Acts of the Apostles, Paul founded the church in Corinth ( Acts 18: 1 – 17 ), then spent approximately three years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

According to tradition and some early church writers, the author is Mark the Evangelist, the companion of the apostle Peter.

According to the very few written documents that have survived, the church in Finland was still in its early development in the 12th century.

According to church materials, his travels were funded by his " wealthy grandfather ".

According to Gregory of Tours it was bishop Monulph who, around 570, built the first stone church on the grave of Servatius, the present-day Basilica of Saint Servatius.

According to Pentecostals, all manifestations of the Spirit are to be judged by the church.

According to one story, while his body was lying in state, a thunderstorm developed during the night and lightning struck the church where his body lay, igniting the building.

According to an article in the Jewish Week, " several observers said, however, that they believe the church laity will similarly reject this proposal.

According to the early church heresiologists Simon is also supposed to have written several lost treatises, two of which bear the titles The Four Quarters of the World and The Sermons of the Refuter.

According to former President Ortega, " The conflict with the church was strong, and it costs us, but I don't think it was our fault ...

According to church tradition, he was raised in Carthage and was thought to be the son of a Roman centurion, a trained lawyer, and an ordained priest.

According to Horace Walpole, the members ' " practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed ; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits.

According to the US Library of Congress exhibit " Religion and the Founding of the American Republic " " It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson ( 1801-1809 ) and of James Madison ( 1809-1817 ) the state became a church.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.