Mannerism and Mobility in the World of Federico Zuccaro

• In Event: Renaissance and New Epistemologies

Abstract

Italian mannerist painter Federico Zuccaro (c.1540–1609) facilitated a global exchange of artistic ideas and production through his prominent network of academics and followers. Zuccaro, a shrewd painter-theorist who painted in Spain, England, and the Netherlands, mobilized a group of Mannerists skilled at attracting international attention from powerful patrons. Working together with Zuccaro on illustrious projects like the Sala Regia in the Vatican, the Oratorio del Gonfalone, and the Villa d’Este in Tivoli, artists including Matteo Perez d’Aleccio, Bernardo Bitti, and Angelino Medoro later found success in Peru, where they maintained their transatlantic association with Zuccaro’s Academy of Saint Luke in Rome. Other Mannerists, like the Spaniard Pablo Cespedes, travelled to Rome to paint alongside Zuccaro and gain his friendship and favor. This paper considers the global authority of this famed Roman academician, and systematically investigates his network, which shaped painting in the late Renaissance, for the first time.

Author

• Emily Monty, Brown University