Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican / Taddeo Zuccaro / Studio of
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- Accession Number
- 1966/1.93
- Title
- Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican
- Artist
- Taddeo Zuccaro
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Artist Life Dates
- (1529 - 1566)
- Medium and Support
- pen and brown ink with brown wash on buff paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1564
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lazio (region)
- Roma (province)
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lazio (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Roma (province)
- Creation Place 5
- Rome (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- Museum Purchase
- Style/Group/Movement
- Late Renaissance
- Inscription
- Inscribed in ink, lower center: Pelligrino Tibaldi Bolognese Collector's Mark, l.l.: T.H. (Thomas Hudson, Lugt 2432)
- Dimensions
- 24.1 cm x 41.3 cm (9 1/2 in. x 16 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- This drawing depicts two addorsed female figures reclining on a triangular slope. The women are partly clothed, and the one on the left wears an elephant-shaped headpiece. Between their shoulders appears a blank escutcheon held by two putti. Nude men in the background strain to hold back piles of objects that include shields and spears.
- Subject Matter
- An artist working in the studio of Taddeo Zuccaro produced this carefully rendered preparatory study of two allegorical female figures for the wall above a doorway in the Sala Regia in the Vatican. Built in the mid-sixteenth century as an antechamber connecting the Sistine and Pauline Chapels, the Sala Regia functioned as a papal throne room, where the pontiff received monarchs and ambassadors. In 1564 Taddeo joined the artist and biographer Giorgio Vasari in painting frescoes on the walls of the splendid chamber. The portion of the work represented in the drawing focuses on two figures reclining upon the triangular pediment over a door. Their slumped postures and sorrowful expressions indicate their subjugation to Christian and papal power. The elephant-shaped headpiece of the figure on the left identifies her as a personification of Africa and links her to the adjacent fresco in the chamber, which depicts the conquest of Tunis by Emperor Charles V in 1535.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2980 x 1996
- File Size
- 791 KB
- Record
- 1966/1.93
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"Study for an Overdoor Decoration in the Sala Regia of the Vatican; Taddeo Zuccaro; Studio of." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1966-sl-1.93/1966_1.93.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 04, 2024.
