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. (17.2 x 39.2cm); 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