Paradise. Artist: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42-1609 Ancona). Dimensions: 15 7/8 × 44 13/16 in. (40.3 × 113.8 cm). Date: 1565-77.The present drawing is study for the fresco designed for, but never executed in, the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Doges' Palace, Venice. In this representation of Paradise, Christ is seated in judgment at the center and flanked by the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist who intercede for mankind. At the right appear a throng of Old Testament figures dominated by Adam, Eve, and Moses with the tablets of the law. At the left are ranged a host of saints of the New Dispensation: Saint Peter and Saint Paul with the other Apostles, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lawrence, Saint Sebastian, Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, and many others. God the Father appears in glory at upper center, while the central foreground is occupied by angel musicians. Hermann Voss, who first published this drawing, suggested that it is Federico Zu
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