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Taddeo Drawing after the Antique; In the Background Copying a Facade by Polidoro

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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

Giorgio Vasari the Renaissance author and painter mentioned that Taddeo Zuccaro "resolved to live by himself and to have recourse to the workshops of Rome where he was by that time known, spending a part of the week doing work for a livelihood, and the rest in drawing." Like every young artist of his day, Taddeo educated himself by learning to copy antique sculptures. In the foreground he busily copies a classical Roman torso set on a carved pedestal. In the background he sits in front of a lavishly decorated palace facade, probably painted by Polidoro da Caravaggio, showing his drawing to another man.

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