Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari Federico Zuccaro or (* 1542 in Sant'Angelo in Vado ( PU), † 1609 in Ancona ) was an Italian Mannerist painter and art theorist.
Life and work
Federico was the younger brother of the 1529 -born painter Taddeo Zuccari Sant'Angelo. He was a pupil of his brother, and later his collaborator. Both were long time of her life in Rome working there and have performed together orders, including for the Orsini, Farnese, eg for Pope Paul III. Farnese. Between 1561 and 1565 he stayed in the Veneto and in Florence. From the Grand Duke Cosimo I Tosana Zuccari was appointed to the court in Florence, there to finish the begun by Giorgio Vasari painting of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore. After his brother 's death in 1566, he completed the works or part thereof in the Villa Farnese in Caprarola and the churches of Santa Trinità dei Monti and San Marcello al Corso in Rome.
Because of an act of revenge Zuccari in 1574 fled to London. The next six years worked mainly Zuccari at the English court as a portrait painter. His most famous paintings of this period are the portraits of the queens Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart.
From 1580 he was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. involved in the decoration of the Cappella Paolina, the smaller palace chapel in the Vatican. In 1581 he was exiled in the course of a case brought against him court of Rome, and was allowed to return until two years later, to complete the work on the Cappella Paolina. To 1586 he was appointed King Philip II to Madrid to participate there in the design of the Escorial. With few exceptions, this altarpieces and frescoes were.
1591 began Zuccari in Via Gregoriana in Rome with the construction of a residential building, the Palazzo Zuccari, which was not completed in his lifetime. The portal to the palace, a Mascherone has the shape of a face with a huge gaping mouth. The basement was painted by Zuccari frescoes.
1598, he was head of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, in which the young artist using principles that he has captured in his book on art theory later taught.
From 1605 to 1607 Zuccari for Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy worked in Turin. There he published his book Idea dei Scultori, pittori ed architetti in which it develops its shaped by the philosophy of Neoplatonism art theory. In his book is about the origins and principles of art. Artistic inspiration and imagination are divine gifts, through which it is possible the artist, the nature to create similar things. Ideas, ideas and works of the artist through processes that are the creations of nature comparable. The disegno interno, the idea of the artwork, requires the disegne externo, the realization by the artist. Since the artist by virtue of his inner ideas creates a new world, he enters a competition with the God-created nature.
On his return to Rome, he founded the Accademia di San Luca, whose first president was.
Casa and Palazzo Zuccari
The Casa Zuccari in Florence is now used by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, the Palazzo Zuccari in Rome from the Bibliotheca Hertziana, two art historical research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society.
Works
- Frescoes in the Villa d' Este, Tivoli, together with Taddeo Zuccari
- The Conquest of Tunis, fresco in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
- Ceiling fresco in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican
- Fall of the Angels, ceiling painting in the Chapel of the Vatican Pius V.
- Adoration of the Magi, 1564, San Francesco della Vigna, Venice
- Cleansing of the temple, 1571, altarpiece in Santa Caterina dei Funari, Rome
- The Fußkuss the Doge before the Pope Alexander III. in the lobby of San Marco, Venice
- Submission of Barbarossa to the Pope to 1582 Sala del consiglio maggior, Doge's Palace, Venice
Writings
- L'Idea de'scultori, pittori e architetti. Turin 1607.