An equestrian battle scene (recto); Two studies of the head of Lorenzo de' Medici, after Michelangelo (verso)

As an assistant to Vasari, Naldini took part in decorating the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Together with a group of sheets in the Uffizi and the École des Beaux-Arts (listed by Strasser, op. cit.), the dynamic war scene on the recto has been associated with the monumental Battle between Pisa and Florence at San Vincenzo, frescoed in the Salone ca. 1567. The two studies on the verso after the monument of Lorenzo de’ Medici in the New Sacristy are typical examples of the young artist’s admiration for Michelangelo.