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Giuseppe Ghezzi and Pier Leone Ghezzi, Portrait of Federico Zuccaro, date unknown, oil on canvas. © Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome

Federico Zuccaro

Federicus Zuccarus, Francisco Zuccho, Federicus Zuccharus, Federico Zuccari

Role(s): Artist, Prince

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Adorni, Bruno. "Un’opera inedita del Vignola: Palazzo Radini-Tedeschi a Piacenza." Palladio 28 (1979): 75–96.

Baglione, Giovanni. Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti. . . . 1642. Reprint, edited by Jacob Hess and Herwarth Röttgen. Vatican City, 1995.

Brooks, Julian, et al. Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome. Exh. cat., J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2007.

Celio, Gaspare. Memoria delli nomi dell’artefici delle pitture che sono in alcune chiese, facciate, et palazzi di Roma. 1638. Facsimile edition. Milan, 1967.

De Girolami Cheney, Liana. "Zuccaro, Federico." In The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, vol. 33, 718–721. New York, 1996.

Di Giampaolo, Mario, ed. Dibujos italianos para El Escorial. Madrid, 1995.

Gealt, Adelheid Medicus. Italian Portrait Drawings, 1400–1800, from North American Collections. Bloomington, 1983.

Gerards-Nelissen, Inemie. "Federico Zuccaro and the Lament of Painting." Simiolus 13 (1983): 44–53.

Harprath, Richard. Italienische Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts aus eigenem Besitz. Munich, 1977.

Herrmann Fiore, Kristina. "Disegno and Giuditio: Allegorical Drawings by Federico Zuccaro and Cherubino Alberti." Master Drawings 20 (1982): 247–256.

Herz, Alexandra. "Vasari’s 'Massacre' Series in the Sala Regia: The Political, Juristic and Religious Background." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 49 (1986): 41–54.

Hochmann, Michel. "Les Annotations marginales de Federico Zuccaro à un exemplaire des Vies de Vasari: La réaction anti-vasarienne à la fin du XVIe siècle." Revue de l’art 80 (1988): 64–71.

Horster, Marita. "Der Minervatempel auf dem Forum Transitorium in Zeichnungen der Renaissance." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 28 (1984): 133–172.

King, Catherine. "Late Sixteenth-Century Careers’ Advice: A New Allegory of Artist’s Training: Albertina, Inv. No. 2763." Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 41 (1988): 77–96.

Kuntz, Margaret. "Vincenzo Borghini and Giorgio Vasari: Two Drawings for the Cappella Paolina." Burlington Magazine 141 (1999): 592–597.

Leinkauf, Thomas. "Federico Zuccaro, L’idea de pittori, scultori et architetti, Turin, 1607: Vorschläge zu einer historisch-systematischen Analyse." Kunsttexte 3 (2011): 1-19.

Loisel, Catherine. “A Portrait of Ludovico Carracci at Christ Church, Oxford: His Early Chronology Reconsidered.” Apollo 151 (2000): 22–27.

Mancini, Giulio. Considerazioni sulla pittura. Edited by Adriana Marucchi and Luigi Salerno. Rome, 1956.

Mason, Stefania. "Il patriarca Francesco Vendramin committente e collezionista d'arte." In L'arte nella storia: Contributi di critica e storia dell'arte per Gianni Carlo Sciolla, 243–257. Milan, 2000.

McTavish, David. "Roman Subject Matter and Style in Venetian Façade Frescoes." RACAR: Revue d’art canadienne 12 (1985): 188–196.

Merz, Gerhard. "Das Bildnis des Federico Zuccari aus der Accademia di San Luca in Rom." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 62 (1999): 209–230.

Moir, Alfred. Old Master Drawings from the Feitelson Collection. Santa Barbara, 1983.

Monbeig-Goguel, Catherine. "À propos d’un dessin retrouvé: Vasari et Zuccaro à la coupole du Dôme de Florence." In Vasari storiografo e artista: Atti del Congresso internazionale nel IV centenario della morte, Arezzo-Firenze, 2–8 settembre 1974, 685–689. Florence, 1976.

Mulcahy, Rosemarie. "Federico Zuccaro and Philip II: The Reliquary Altars for the Basilica of San Lorenzo de el Escorial." Burlington Magazine 129 (1987): 502–509.

Muller, Priscilla E. “Philip II, Federico Zuccaro, Pellegrino Tibaldi, Bartolome Carducho and the Adoration of the Magi in the Escorial Retablo Mayor.” In Actas del XXIII Congresso internacional de historia del arte: España entre el Mediterraneo y el Atlantico. 367–376. Granada, 1977.

Nanobashvii, Nino. Palazzo Zuccari: Ein Ausbildungsort für die jungen Maler? Munich, 2011.

Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman’s Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Bloomington, 1979.

Pillsbury, Edmund. "Two Drawings by Federico Zuccaro Done in Venice." Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 35 (1974): 8–13.

Robertson, Clare. "Federico Zuccari’s Accademia del Disegno and the Carracci Accademia degli Incamminati: Drawing in Theory and Practice." Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 39 (2009–2010): 187-223.

Robertson, Giles. "A Drawing after Titian's Madonna di Ca’ Pesaro by Federico Zuccaro." In Tiziano e Venezia: Convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 1976, 559–561. Vincenza, 1980.

Rossi, Sergio. "Idea e accademia: Studio sulle teorie artistiche di Federico Zuccaro, I: Disegno interno e disegno esterno." Storia dell’arte 20 (1974): 37–56.

Salas, Xavier de. "Las notas del Greco a la 'Vida de Tiziano,' de Vasari." In El Greco: Italy and Spain, ed. Jonathan Brown and José Manuel Pita Andrade, 161–169. National Gallery of Art, Studies in the History of Art, vol. 13. Washington, 1984.

Shearman, John. “An Episode in the History of Conservation: The Fragments of Perino’s Altarpiece from S. Maria sopra Minerva.” In Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Ugo Procacci. Milan, 1977.

Sman, Gert Jan van der. "Federico Zuccaro, Koepelsegment met het Laatste Oordeel, circa 1576–79." In Uit het Leidse Prentenkabinet: Over tekeningen, prenten en foto's, bij het afscheid van Anton Boschloo, edited by Nelke Bartelings, Bram de Klerck, and Eric Jan Sluijter, 37–39. Leiden, 2001.

Spengler, Dietmar. “A Drawing and a Self-Portrait by Federico Zuccaro.” Burlington Magazine 137 (1995): 750–752.

Sohm, Phillip. "Caravaggio, Federico Zuccaro and the Economics of ‘Novità.’" In Novità: Neuheitskonzepte in den Bildkünsten um 1600, edited by Ulrich Pfisterer and Gabriele Wimböck, 375–399. Zurich, 2011.

Strinati, Claudio. "Gli anni difficili di Federico Zuccari." Storia dell’arte 21 (1974): 85–117.

Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Gesamtregister: Register zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart und zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts, s.v. "Zuccari, Federico." Munich, 1996.

Thoenes, Christof. "Vignola’s ‘Regola delli cinque ordini." Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 20 (1983): 345–376.

Waźbiński, Zygmunt. "Federico Zuccaro nell'anno 1579: Il contributo al mecenatismo di Francesco Maria II della Rovere duca di Urbino." In Der Maler Federico Zuccari. Ein römischer Virtuoso von europaïschen Rhum: Akten der internazionalem Kongresses der Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom und Florenz, edited by Matthias Winner and Detlef Heikamp, 207–213. Munich, 1999.

Waźbiński, Zygmunt. “Lo Studio–La Scuola fiorentina di Federico Zuccari.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz 29 (1985): 275–346.

Waźbiński, Zygmunt. "San Luca che dipinge la Madonna all’Accademia di Roma: Un 'Pastiche' zuccariano nella maniera di Raffaello." Artibus et historiae 12 (1985): 27–37.

Wegner, Susan E. "'A Witness to the Raising of Lazarus': A Drawing by Federico Zuccaro." Source 4 (1984): 7–11.

Wegner, Susan E. "Prints and the Reform of Painting in Siena." Print Quarterly 4 (1987): 119–137.

Zentai, Loránd. "Portrait inconnu de Dianna Scultori." Bulletin du Musée hongrois des beaux-arts 62–65 (1984): 43–51.