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Taddeo in the Belvedere Court in the Vatican Drawing the Laocoön

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Italian Artist · 1541–1609

After Titian's death in 1576, Federico Zuccaro may have been the most famous painter in Europe as well as the most influential, traveling widely and creating a huge number of works, largely of religious subjects. The son of a painter in Urbino, he absorbed Mannerism in Rome under his brother Taddeo, who was a dozen years his senior. When Taddeo died in 1566, Federico took over his flourishing prac

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Date: about 1595
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk and touches of red chalk
Culture: Italian
Department: Drawings
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 3d4aa565-5f56-43c8-88c6-06632fd9c0fd

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Having recovered from his illness, Taddeo Zuccaro returned to Rome to study both classical and contemporary works of art. He sits in the courtyard of the Vatican Belvedere, sketching the *Laocoön* . Around him are the *Apollo Belvedere* and the river gods of the Tiber and the Nile. An inkwell and pen box sit at his feet as he draws. The highlights of Roman architecture stretch out below Taddeo, including the papal apartments of the Vatican decorated by Raphael. Federico Zuccaro singled them out for notice with his label, *le camere di Rafaello* (Raphael's apartments). On the right is the new Saint Peter's basilica under construction. The left side of the courtyard was still open in the 1540s, but it was closed in later in the century.

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