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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Though Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-66) and his brother Federico (1540/1-1609) have long been recognized as two of the most influential Italian painters of the later sixteenth century Taddeo’s reputation has been eclipsed by that of his less talented but longer-lived younger brother. In this book an attempt is made to correct the balance by distinguishing Taddeo for the first time as a separate artistic personality. Mr Gere Deputy Keeper in the British Museum Print Room and a specialist in Italian draw- ings of the sixteenth century who began this study to clear the ground for a volume of the Museum catalogue has brought to light more than 200 drawings by Taddeo Zuccaro in museums and private collections in Europe and in the United States. In the 138 drawings re- produced almost all of them for the first time the course of Taddeo’s unusually complex development can be clearly traced; and he emerges as one of the most remarkable and brilliantly versa- tile draughtsmen of a period abounding in draughtsmen of talent and even genius. The catalogue raisonn? of 265 items in- cluding every known drawing from the artist’s own hand as well as copies of lost drawings studio drawings and a few ‘borderline cases. (MP)