Rijksmuseum

Flight of Angels, Two Holding a Large Feather

Date

c. 1556 - c. 1558

Medium

paper, deck paint, ink

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Taddeo Zuccaro garnered fame in Rome with his frescoes on the exteriors of city palaces. Regrettably, almost all of them have been lost. However, we can gain a good impression of their former splendour through his drawings. This elaborate sheet is a design for a spandrel, the triangular space between the outer curve of an arch and the rectilinear boundary of a niche, framework or ceiling.

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