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 .
16-595: Zuccaro was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado , near Urbino, the son of Ottaviano Zuccaro, an almost unknown painter. His brother Federico , born around 1540, was also a painter and architect. As a young man Taddeo was to be encouraged by Pompeo da Fano . Zuccaro moved to Rome by age 14, and mainly trained himself by copying earlier masters. He succeeded at an early age in gaining a knowledge of painting and in finding patrons to employ him.The principal formative influences on him were
32-400: A municipium at the beginning of the 1st century BC. The city was built on a grid with the main cardo maximus running past the public baths and terminating at a forum which lies beneath the former convent of Saint Catherine. The city grew grew particularly in the 1st and 3rd centuries AD with imperial financial support for many monumental buildings. Many remains of these are visible in
48-1105: A ceiling fresco, The Martyrdom of Saint Paul , in the Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello al Corso in Rome. He died in Rome in 1566, and was buried in the Pantheon , not far from Raphael. Sant%27Angelo in Vado Sant'Angelo in Vado is a comune (municipality) in the province of Pesaro and Urbino , in the Italian region of Marche . The municipality is about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Ancona and about 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Pesaro . The Metauro river flows through it. It borders Apecchio , Belforte all'Isauro , Carpegna , Mercatello sul Metauro , Peglio , Piandimeleto , Urbania and Urbino . The ancient Roman city of Tifernum Mataurense which lies underneath Sant'Angelo in Vado became
64-438: A corridor with a mosaic floor depicting four two-tone geometric squares except for a pink floral element (room 20). This leads to the atrium-peristyle and to rooms 19 and 16, probably the tablinum next to which was a bedroom ( cubiculum ) in which is a geometric mosaic whose design is off-centre and depicting the face of Bacchus. From the corridor of the atrium, with a geometric mosaic with hexagons alternating with rhombuses,
80-408: A hexagon while in the north room a mosaic in the form of a carpet to the west of which is a rectangle with pairs of animals. Rooms 23 and 24 are baths and a changing room area and perhaps room 21 (monochrome geometric mosaic) was used for the relaxation of guests. The rooms without flooring along the southern side are for domestic activities and in which loom weights and needles were recovered. Room 7 in
96-596: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Piandimeleto Piandimeleto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche , located about 90 kilometres (56 mi) west of Ancona and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) southwest of Pesaro . Piandimeleto borders the following municipalities: Belforte all'Isauro , Carpegna , Frontino , Lunano , Macerata Feltria , Pietrarubbia , Sant'Angelo in Vado , Sassocorvaro Auditore , Sestino , Urbino . Its territory
112-583: The Castello Orsini at Bracciano . 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. Stylistically, he also displays a Mannerist taste for sculpted physicality characteristic of Michelangelo . Vasari praised his compositional skill and
128-770: The N/W corner along the road seems to have been used as a kitchen and subsequently for artisanal production of ceramics. There were two periods when there was a Roman Catholic Diocese of Sant'Angelo in Vado , although the Diocese has been suppressed since 1986. The town is represented by Vadese Calcio [ it ] , an amateur football (soccer) club founded in 1952, mainly competing in Eccellenza , Promozione and Serie D . Its colors are yellow and red. Sant'Angelo in Vado has been twinned with Mar del Plata , Argentina, since 1998. This Marche location article
144-503: The Passion in the "Cappella Mattei" of Santa Maria della Consolazione . His best frescoes were a historical series in quadro riportato painted on the walls and ceiling of Villa Farnese at Caprarola , built for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese , for which Zuccaro also designed a great quantity of rich decorations in stucco relief after the style of Giulio Romano and other pupils of Raphael . He also painted Histories of Alexander in
160-417: The dining room ( triclinium ) was reached from two other rooms, arranged symmetrically to the north and south, also used during banquets or meetings. In the triclinium is a hunting scene with fishing scene in the centre surrounded by many zoomorphic and mythological figures and a festive repertoire of black and white geometric motifs. In the adjacent room to the south is a mosaic with the face of Medusa inside
176-459: The façade decorations of Polidoro da Caravaggio . When he was seventeen a pupil of Correggio , named Daniele da Parma , engaged him to assist in painting a series of frescoes in a chapel at Vitto near Sora , on the borders of the Abruzzi (not corroborated by Freedberg). Zuccaro returned to Rome in 1548, and began his career as a fresco painter, by executing a series of scenes in monochrome from
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#1732783642196192-470: The life of Marcus Furius Camillus on the front of the palace of a wealthy Roman named Jacopo Mattei. From that time his success was assured, and he was largely employed by the popes Julius III and Paul IV , by the della Rovere duke of Urbino, and by other rich patrons. He is documented to have worked alongside Prospero Fontana in decorating the Villa Giulia . In 1556, he painted frescoed Scenes of
208-399: The name "Domus del Mito" (house of myths). The mosaics indicate the inclusion of the city in the circuit of specialised mosaic workers, and of cultured and refined owners. Among the themes depicted are particularly: Neptune and Amphitrite on the triumphal chariot pulled by sea horses followed by Dionysus, god of wine and then arriving at the petrifying face of Medusa. Another spectacular room is
224-598: The refined fluidity and vigour of his style, singling out his treatment of heads, hands and nudes. 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). Around 1558, he painted
240-563: The town. The Domus del Mito excavated beginning in 2003 was a large noble house ( domus ) built towards the end of the 1st century AD. The Domus is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last 50 years. It has an area of approximately 1,000 m (11,000 sq ft) and 27 rooms. It was embellished with a rich complex of monochrome and polychrome figurative mosaics of excellent quality and mostly splendidly preserved. They exhibit various subjects with many figures, mostly linked to classical mythology, which have given it
256-508: The triclinium in which a hunting and fishing scene are depicted surrounded by a festive repertoire of black and white geometric motifs. The Domus is located in the "Campo della Pieve". The Roman street was to the West of the house along a N/S axis and the entrance (vestibulum) was in room 6 with the Triumph of Neptune mosaic. From there the visitor would pass over a sandstone threshold and along
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