| He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess. |
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| For Vasari, the stylistic and formal development of art is of primary importance. |
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| Vasari vividly depicts the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny being thrown out of an upstairs window, while his followers are put to the sword in the foreground. |
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| For Vasari, his was the first, albeit embryonic, attempt to shake off the supposed crudity of medieval style and begin the long march to a fully achieved Renaissance. |
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| Uccello was so obsessed with trying to achieve an appearance of perspective that, according to Vasari, it disturbed his sleep. |
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| For instance, Vasari wrote of several artists who hailed from a town in northwestern Italy in the region of Piedmont, between Milan and Turin, now known as Vercelli. |
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| It was not just the growing awareness of classical antiquity that drove this development, according to Vasari, but also the growing desire to study and imitate nature. |
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| Vasari saw antique art as central to the rebirth of Italian art. |
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| The Vasari Corridor is another gallery, built connecting the Palazzo Vecchio with the Pitti Palace passing by the Uffizi and over the Ponte Vecchio. |
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