Three Figures Supporting a Man, Smaller Sketch of the Same, and Studies for the Blinding of Elymas
Taddeo Zuccaro
c. 1558
Medium
Pen and brown ink, and brush and red chalk and brown wash, with touches of red chalk, and black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
38.6 × 27.4 cm (15 1/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113059
About the Artist
Taddeo Zuccaro · 1529–1566
Taddeo Zuccaro, born on September 1, 1529, in Sant'Angelo in Vado within the Duchy of Urbino, emerged from a modest artistic family as the son of the little-known painter Ottaviano Zuccaro, in whose workshop he received his initial training. Encouraged by the local artist Pompeo da Fano, who served briefly as his teacher according to Giorgio Vasari, Taddeo relocated to Rome around age 14, where he...