zaro the elder and Giorgio the elder,
having removed them from their former resting-place, and likewise those
of all the other members of the said family, both male and female; and
thus he has made a new burial-place for all the descendants of the house
of Vasari. In like manner, the body of his mother (who died in Florence
in the year 1557), after having remained for some years in S. Croce,
has been deposited by him in the said tomb, according to her own
desire, together with Antonio, her husband and his father, who died of
plague at the end of the year 1527. In the predella that is below the
panel of the said altar there are portraits from nature, made by the
said Giorgio, of Lazzaro, of the elder Giorgio, his grandfather, of his
father Antonio, and of his mother Monna Maddalena de' Tacci. And let
this be the end of the Life of Lazzaro Vasari, painter of Arezzo.

FOOTNOTE:

[9] Guglielmo da Marcilla.

ANTONELLO DA MESSINA

LIFE OF ANTONELLO DA MESSINA

PAINTER

When I consider within my own mind the various qualities of the benefits
and advantages that have been conferred on the art of painting by many
masters who have followed the second manner, I cannot do otherwise than
call them, by reason of their efforts, truly industrious and excellent,
because they sought above all to bring painting to a better condition,
without thinking of discomfort, expense, or any particular interest of
their own. They continued, then, to employ no other method of colouring
save that of distemper for panels and for canvases, which method had
been introduced by Cimabue in the year 1250, when he was working with
those Greeks, and had been afterwards followed by Giotto and by the
others of whom we have spoken up to the present; and they were still
adhering to the same manner of working, although the craftsmen
recognized clearly that pictures in distemper were wanting in a certain
softness and liveliness, which, if they could be obtained, would be
likely to give more grace to their designs, loveliness to their
colouring, and greater facility in blending the colours together; for
they had ever been wont to hatch their works merely with the point of
the brush. But although many had made investigations and sought for
something of the sort, yet no one had found any good method, either by
the use of liquid varnish or by the mixture of other kinds of colours
with the distemper. Among many who made trial of these and other simil