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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
"Whether it was due to the magnitude of his exploit in taking a city which could vie with Rome and endure a siege of ten years, or to the congratulations showered upon him, Camillus was lifted up to vanity, cherished thoughts far from becoming to a civil magistrate subject to the law, and celebrated a triumph with great pomp: he actually had four white horses harnessed to a chariot on which he mounted and drove through Rome, a thing which no commander had ever done before or afterwards did. For they thought such a car sacred and devoted to the king and father of the gods. In this way he incurred the enmity of the citizens, who were not accustomed to wanton extravagance."
– Plutarch, Life of Marcus Furius Camillus (early 2nd century), translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1914)
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
"Salviati's images convey the sense of something wrought, a working on real visual and tactile matter until it yields what the artificer wills from it of ornament, while at the same time this matter's existential power is translated into a power of art. Not just imitation of antique relief but a more important motive, seeking strong presence and effects, makes forms crowd toward the picture surface. And to accumulate the energy and density of ornament that Salviati wants also requires it to be condensed, without dispersion into space, in a woven continuity close upon the picture plane. This artificer's will works not only all the major matter in a single picture's frame but the whole extent of the surface given him to decorate: the entire wall has the quality of a thing made by an incredible conjunction in the medium of paint of the sculptor's, goldsmith's, and lapidary's art."
– S.J. Freedberg from Painting in Italy - 1500 to 1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (London, 1971)
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Triumph of Camillus (Hills of Rome in Background) ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |
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| Francesco Salviati Sala dell' Udienza Ornamental Ram's Head ca. 1543-45 fresco Palazzo Vecchio, Florence |