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Two Child Angels, Symbolizing Patience and Industry (99.GA.6.11)
Creator
Federico ZuccaroItalian Artist · 1541–1609
All works by this person →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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- about 1595
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Allegorical figures of Wisdom and Diligence stand on either side of an empty circle that Federico probably intended to contain an emblem, such as the sugar loaf belonging to the Zuccaro family. On the left, the small cherub representing Wisdom holds a shield and spear. A head, perhaps that of the goddess Minerva, decorates the shield. Another cupid on the right, signifying Diligence, holds a spade from which sprouts a bunch of grain and a shield decorated with a spider web.
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