In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

[citation needed] He did not research archives for exact dates as modern art historians do and naturally his biographies are most dependable for the painters of his own generation and those of the immediate past. At both he removed the original rood screen and loft and remodelled the retro-choirs in the Mannerist taste of his time. Painting
In 1529 he visited Rome where he studied the works of Raphael and other artists of the Roman High Renaissance.

Giorgio Vasari (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒo vaˈzari]; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian painter architect writer and historian most famous today for his Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.