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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1987.3
People
Federico Zuccaro, Italian (Sant'Angelo in Vado, Italy c. 1541 - 1609 Ancona, Italy)
Title
Study for the Cupola of the Duomo, Florence
Other Titles
Former Title: Study for the Southwest Face of the Cupola of the Duomo, Florence
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1575-1576
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295128

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with local additions of yellow-brown wash on white antique laid paper, discolored to dark tan
Dimensions
54.5 x 41.4 cm (21 7/16 x 16 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
(W. Apolloni, Rome, 22 April 1978, in catalogue, "Dai manieristi ai neoclassici: disegni italiani," ?). [Sotheby Parke Bernet Italia, Florence, 24 May 1983, lot 346]. [William H. Schab, New York]. Sabatino Abate, Jr., gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1987.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Sabatino Abate, Jr. in honor of Professor Konrad Oberhuber
Accession Year
1987
Object Number
1987.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogo di dipinti del sec. XIX, stampe, disegni e dipinti antichi, auct. cat., Sotheby Parke Bernet Italia (Florence, Italy, May 24, 1983 - May 25, 1983), no. 346, repr.
  • Julien Stock, Il valore dei dipinti antichi: l'analisi crtica, storica ed economica (Turin, 1984), p. 222 repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 44, n.p., and pp. 13, 40, 44 and under cat. no. 45, repr. color
  • E. James Mundy and Elizabeth Ourusoff de Fernandez-Gimenez, Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, 1989 (To accompany an exhibition held at Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (11/17/89-01/14/90) and The National Academy of Design (03/13/90-04/29/90).), cat no. 67, pp. 214-215, and pp. 212, 216 and 218, repr.
  • Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2006), under cat. no. 19 (notes 7, 8)

Exhibition History

  • Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 11/17/1989 - 01/14/1990; National Academy of Design, New York, 03/13/1990 - 04/29/1990
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/09/2015 - 03/02/2016; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 02/26/2024

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