Taddeo Zuccaro

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Taddeo Zuccaro

Italian painter

Also known as: Taddeo Zuccari

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Zuccaro also spelled:: Zuccari

Born:: Sept. 1, 1529, Sant’Angelo in Vado, Urbino

Died:: Sept. 1/2, 1566, Rome

Also Known As:: Taddeo Zuccari

Movement / Style:: Mannerism

Taddeo Zuccaro (born Sept. 1, 1529, Sant’Angelo in Vado, Urbino—died Sept. 1/2, 1566, Rome) was an Italian painter, leader (with his brother Federico Zuccaro) of the Roman Mannerist school of painting.

Largely self-trained at Rome, Taddeo Zuccaro was influenced by the works of Perino del Vaga and Polidoro da Caravaggio. From the early 1550s he executed many decorative frescoes for facades and interiors of palaces and a few religious works.

From 1559 until his death he was in charge of his greatest commission, the frescoes and stucco decorations of the Villa dei Farnese at Caprarola (Italy)—among the most splendidly ornamented rooms of the time.

"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.

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