And so it was , too , sometime in 12th - or 13th-century Florence , when , according to Giorgio Vasari , the city fathers , distressed by an evident dearth of gifted local painters , summoned artists trained in the Byzantine style , and their presence contributed to the early stages of the Italian Renaissance .
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