Who said "Oh, what a sweet thing is this perspective" when called to bed by his wife?

Question

It's part of an Art quiz and I'm stuck. Apparently, the artist Vasari quoted a person saying it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Paolo Uccello [1397-1475] would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting, if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective, for, although these are ingenious and good in their way, yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time, fatigues nature, clogs the mind with difficulties, and frequently renders it sterile where it has previously been fertile and facile...
In cases where an artist devotes more attention to this than to his figures he frequently becomes solitary, eccentric, melancholy and poor. This was the fate of Paolo Uccello who took pleasure in nothing except the investigation of difficult and impossible questions of perspective.

When engaged upon these matters Paolo would remain alone, like a hermit, with hardly any intercourse, for weeks and months, not allowing himself to be seen.

He lefta wife who used to say that Paolo would remain the night long in his study to work out the lines of his perspective, and that when she called him to come to rest, he replied, "Oh what a sweet thing this perspective is!"

Answer 2

It was by Paolo Uccello who was a painter and he was notable of visual perspective in art. The quote was mentioned as follows; It is said that being entrusted with the painting of St. Thomas over the gate of the church dedicated to that saint in the Old Market, Paolo resolved to put into the work all he knew, and to show how much he was capable of; and so he made a screen round him that none might be able to see his work until it was finished. And one day Donatello, meeting him all alone, asked him, "What is this work of yours which you keep shut up so close?" To which Paolo replied, "You will see in time." Donatello would not urge him any more, expecting to see something marvellous. But one morning, going into the old market to buy fruit, he saw Paolo uncovering his work, and saluting him courteously, Paolo called upon him to say what he thought of his picture, eagerly desiring to know his opinion. Donatello, looking at the work carefillly, replied, "Ah, Paolo, now that it is time to cover it up you are uncovering it." Paolo was greatly afflicted, that by this his last effort he had earned much more blame than he hoped to have earned praise; and he shut himself up in his house as if he had disgraced himself, not having courage to walk abroad any longer, giving himself up to perspective, and remained poor and obscure until his death. His wife used to say that Paolo would sit studying perspective all night, and when she called him to come to bed he would answer, " Oh, what a sweet thing this perspective is!" And if it was sweet to him, his work has made it valuable and useful indeed to those who have studied it after him

Answer 3

This is doing my head in now! I have a feeling it might be Masaccio but may be wrong. I do know it was the artist who did the carefully worked out perspective painting of Christ in the temple, teaching... sorry to be so vague!

Answer 4

Uccello!!
The title of Kit Wise’s exhibition is lifted, drolly, from Uccello who, while contemplating his perspectival labours, found himself sleeplessly using words of love - “Oh, what a sweet thing is this perspective” - even as, we are told, his wife languished in her bed