Taddeo Zuccari
Taddeo Zuccaro (or Zuccari) (1 September 1529 – 2 September 1566) was an Italian painter, one of the most popular members of the Roman mannerist school.
Biography
Zuccaro was born in
Zuccaro moved to
His best frescoes were a historical series in . Nearly all his paintings were large, rapidly executed frescos, often in chiaroscuro or monochrome.
Zuccaro borrowed elements from both the High Renaissance style and Mannerism, combining figures of natural proportion and idealized form with intense emotion.
Zuccaro's easel pictures are less common than his decorative frescoes. A small painting on copper of the Adoration of the Shepherds, formerly in the collection of James II, is now at Hampton Court Palace. The Caprarola frescoes were engraved and published by Prenner, Illustri Fatti Farnesiani Coloriti nel Real Palazzo di Caprarola (Rome, 1748–50).[3]
Around 1558, he painted a ceiling fresco, The Martyrdom of Saint Paul, in the Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello al Corso in Rome.[6]
He died in Rome in 1566, and was buried in the Pantheon, not far from Raphael.[3]
References
- ^ Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori ed architetti, Second volume, by Giorgio Vasari, curated by F Ranalli, in Florence, 1848, page 1315.
- ^ "Taddeo Zuccaro", The British Museum
- ^ a b c d public domain: Middleton, John Henry (1911). "Zuccaro". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1047. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ a b "Taddeo Zuccaro", Getty Museum Collection
- ^ Cheney, Liana De Girolami. "Zuccaro". Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
- ^ "The Martyrdom of Saint Paul", The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 490–495.