Influential Italian Mannerist painter Taddeo Zuccaro (Zuccari)…
September 1566 CE
Influential Italian Mannerist painter Taddeo Zuccaro (Zuccari) dies on September 2, 1566, a day after his thirty-seventh birthday.
Among his most notable works are the frescoes, painted mostly in the past six years, in the Cappella Frangipane, San Marcello al Corso, Rome, which display Taddeo’s Mannerist assimilation of Raphael’s Vatican Stanze frescoes as well as his interest in the work of Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo.
Taddeo also completed a Michelangelesque altarpiece for the same Frangipane Chapel, The Conversion of Saint Paul.
His well-known historical painting, Francis I of France receiving Emperor Charles V, hangs in the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola, where Taddeo has worked for the past seven years.
Taddeo is buried in the Pantheon, close to Raphael.
His younger brother Federico continues to help develop the Mannerist style in central Italy.
In 1566, also, the National Academy of Saint Cecilia for music is founded in Rome.
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Royal Entry of Emperor Charles V, Francis I of France, and Alessandro Cardinal Farnese into Paris, Villa Farnese (1559).
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