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Pallas Athena Shows Taddeo the Prospect of Rome (99.GA.6.3)

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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 red chalk
Culture: Italian
Department: Drawings
Institution: Getty Museum

Dressed in her armor, plumed helmet, and shield, Minerva, goddess of learning and the arts, welcomes Taddeo Zuccaro to Rome; he in turn marvels at the city laid out before him. Federico Zuccaro set the scene on the road to the north of the city with one of the city gates just down the road. The church of Santa Maria del Popolo, the Pantheon, and the Coliseum are all visible in the distance. Federico drew his brother in typical peasant costume, wearing stockings probably made from wool or linen cloth and cut to the shape of the leg. A short-sleeved tunic labeled with his name along the bottom covers his body, and he carries his belongings rolled in a cloth on his back.

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