The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn. Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, Arezzo 1511-1574 Florence). Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 15 7/16in. (17.2 x 39.2cm). Date: 1555-56.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. Vasari supplied a full description of the complex symbolism of this allegorical composition that is dominated by the figure of Saturn holding up a serpent that bites its own tail. This circular symbol is said to be an Egyptian hieroglyph, symbolic of the rotundity of the heavens among other things. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn. Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, Arezzo 1511-1574 Florence). Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 15 7/16in. (17.2 x 39.2cm). Date: 1555-56.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. Vasari supplied a full description of the complex symbolism of this allegorical composition that is dominated by the figure of Saturn holding up a serpent that bites its own tail. This circular symbol is said to be an Egyptian hieroglyph, symbolic of the rotundity of the heavens among other things. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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