Abstract
In the spring of 1539, after a sojourn of more than seven years in Rome, Francesco Salviati made a journey to North Italy that was of considerable importance for his subsequent development.1 The facts of the journey are known or can be deduced in some detail. Immediately before leaving Rome, Francesco had been engaged on the decoration of the Oratory of San Giovanni Decollate He completed his Visitation there in 1538, and was probably preparing a project for the Birth of the Baptist in an adjacent space when a rivalry with Jacopino del Conte, another of the young painters working in the Oratory, caused him to withdraw from the program of decoration.2 According to Vasari, Francesco returned to Florence to visit his family at this point, but he was undoubtedly also tempted by the possibility of employment at the recently established court of Cosimo I de’ Medici. He was, in fact, promptly engaged to participate in the decorations for Cosimo's forthcoming marriage to Eleonora da Toledo, but this work did not ...
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