Lot Essay
A primo pensiero, which includes the profiles of the columns of the frame, for the altarpiece at Rimini, L. Corti, Vasari, Florence, 1989, no. 51, illustrated. Vasari recorded that he received the commission on 4 January 1548 of the high altarpiece of San Francesco at Rimini (also known as the Tempio Malestiano) from Niccolò Marcheselli. Vasari discusses at some length in his Vita that he portrayed the landscape from life