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The Age of Gold
Creator
Jacopo ZucchiItalian Artist · 1541–1596
All works by this person →Jacopo Zucchi trained with Giorgio Vasari. While assisting in the decoration of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio as early as 1557 and again between 1563 and 1565, he learning Vasari's allusions and conceits. Zucchi's earliest drawing dates from a trip with Vasari to Pisa in 1561. In 1564 Zucchi entered the Accademia del Disegno and helped with Michelangelo's funeral decorations. He was also Vasari's chi
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- about 1575
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush with brown, ocher and red wash, heightened with white gouache, on ocher-washed paper
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Humans and animals co-exist peacefully in this lush, fantastical setting. In the foreground, graceful nude figures lounge or pose elegantly like statues, while two small boys urinate into a stream that flows into a small pool. In the background, figures dance in a circle; high above in the distance, others sit on a hill and watch wild animals at play. Jacopo Zucchi made this highly finished compositional study, or modello, for the small scale painting *The Age of Gold*, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The Golden Age, the first of four ages of the world in classical mythology, followed immediately after the world's creation and was an earthly paradise akin to the Christian Garden of Eden.
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