The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn, Giorgio Vasari, 1555–56

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The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn, 1555–56, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk, 6 3/4 x 15 7/16in. ( x ), Drawings, Giorgio Vasari (Italian, Arezzo 1511–1574 Florence), The drawing, surely from the hand of Vasari himself, is a study for an Allegory of Earth painted by his assistant Cristofano Gherardi in the Sala degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. There are a number of differences between the preparatory drawing and the finished fresco

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