The Riccardi Palace has a room
with fresco scenes from the life of Casar. While painting these Duke
Alessandro gave him a salary of six crowns a month with a place at his
table, and board for his servant, &c. The palace has several oil
paintings by Vasari, amongst which are portraits of the Duke and his
sister. After the death of Duke Alessandro and Ottaviano he wandered
from city to city, painting so energetically that there are few of the
principal towns which do not possess some of his works, especially
Naples, Pisa, Bologna, and Arezzo. The Palazzo San Giorgio of the
Farnese family, in Rome, has a large hall richly frescoed by Vasari,
but the best of his works are to be seen on the walls of the great hall
of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he has illustrated the
battles of the Florentines, and in several other rooms of the same
palace; he having continued all the later years of his life in the
service of Duke Cosimo, by whom the palace was restored and decorated.
His works are too numerous and not sufficiently important to catalogue
or describe, his composition is overcrowded and wanting in perspective.
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