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Home | Ancient History Sourcebook | Medieval Sourcebook | Modern History Sourcebook | Byzantine Studies Page Other History Sourcebooks: African | East Asian | Indian | Islamic | Jewish | Lesbian and Gay | Science | Women's | Global IHSP Selected Sources Full Text Sources Saints' Lives Law Texts Maps Medieval Films Search Help Medieval Sourcebook: Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the Artists: Filippo di ser Brunelesco Back to Index to Vasari's Lives IT is a habit of Nature when she makes one man very great in any art, not to make him alone, but at the same time and in the same place to produce another to rival him, that they may aid each other by emulation. And that this is true may be seen by the example of Florence, which produced at one epoch Filippo, Donatello, Lorenzo, Paolo Uccello, and Masaccio, each one most excellent in his way. This last, who came from Castello San Giovanni di Valdarno, was a most absentminded man, and seemed like one who, having fixed his mind on thin

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