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Taddeo Zuccaro

Italian, 1529-1566
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Taddeo Zuccaro (or Zuccari) was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.

Zuccaro was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino, the son of Ottaviano Zuccaro, an almost unknown painter. His brother Federico, born around 1540, was also a painter and architect. As a young man Taddeo was to be encouraged by Pompeo da Fano.

Zuccaro moved to Rome by age 14, and he succeeded at an early age in gaining a knowledge of painting and in finding patrons to employ him. When he was seventeen a pupil of Correggio, named Daniele da Parma, engaged him to assist in painting a series of frescoes in a chapel at Vitto near Sora, on the borders of the Abruzzi (not corroborated by Freedberg). Zuccaro returned to Rome in 1548, and began his career as a fresco painter, by executing a series of scenes in monochrome from the life of Marcus Furius Camillus on the front of the palace of a wealthy Roman named Jacopo Mattei. From that time his success was assured, and he was largely employed by the popes Julius III and Paul IV, by the della Rovere duke of Urbino, and by other rich patrons. He is documented to have worked alongside Prospero Fontana in decorating the Villa Giulia. In 1556, he painted frescoed Scenes of the Passion in the "Cappella Mattei" of Santa Maria della Consolazione.

His best frescoes were a historical series in quadro riportato painted on the walls and ceiling of Villa Farnese at Caprarola, built for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, for which Zuccaro also designed a great quantity of rich decorations in stucco relief after the style of Giulio Romano and other pupils of Raphael. He also painted Histories of Alexander in the Castello Orsini at Bracciano. Nearly all his paintings were large, rapidly executed frescos, often in chiaroscuro or monochrome. Stylistically, he also displays a Mannerist taste for sculpted physicality characteristic of Michelangelo. Vasari praised his compositional skill and the refined fluidity and vigour of his style, singling out his treatment of heads, hands and nudes.

Zuccaro's easel pictures are less common than his decorative frescoes. A small painting on copper of the Adoration of the Shepherds, formerly in the collection of James II, is now at Hampton Court Palace. The Caprarola frescoes were engraved and published by Prenner, Illustri Fatti Farnesiani Coloriti nel Real Palazzo di Caprarola (Rome, 1748–50).

He painted Conversion of St. Paul in San Marcello al Corso in Rome.

He died in Rome in 1566, and was buried in the Pantheon, not far from Raphael.

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The Archangel Saint Michael

The Archangel Saint Michael

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Studies for a Circular Composition of Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing

Studies for a Circular Composition of Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (1529–66)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Jonah and the whale, seen from a landscape with trees

Jonah and the whale, seen from a landscape with trees (1550s)

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The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

The Martyrdom of Saint Paul (ca. 1557–58)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Studies for a Circular Composition of Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing

Studies for a Circular Composition of Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing (1529–66)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Soldiers Carrying a Model of a City

Soldiers Carrying a Model of a City (1548)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Saint Paul Restoring Eutychus to Life

Saint Paul Restoring Eutychus to Life (1529–66)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Figure Studies

Figure Studies (1553–1556)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Design for a Circular Dish

Design for a Circular Dish (1553–1556)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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The Conversion of Saint Paul

The Conversion of Saint Paul (1558–1566)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Three Studies of Soldiers

Three Studies of Soldiers (1550)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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A Miracle of Saint Philip Benizzi: The Healing of a Demoniac Woman

A Miracle of Saint Philip Benizzi: The Healing of a Demoniac Woman (c. 1557)

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Standing Prophet in a Niche, Holding a Book

Standing Prophet in a Niche, Holding a Book (1529–66)

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Standing Nude Man

Standing Nude Man (1550)

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Sketch of a Leg

Sketch of a Leg (1529–66)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife

Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife (ca. 1550)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Group of Six Reclining Nude Women (Nymphs Bathing)

Group of Six Reclining Nude Women (Nymphs Bathing) (1529–66)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Design for a Cartouche with a Religious Subject in the Central Compartment

Design for a Cartouche with a Religious Subject in the Central Compartment (16th century)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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Cardinal Albornoz Gives the Farnese the Keys to Valentino

Cardinal Albornoz Gives the Farnese the Keys to Valentino (1565)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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A Man Seen from Behind (verso)

A Man Seen from Behind (verso) (c. 1555)

Taddeo Zuccaro (Italian, 1529-1566)
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