Study for The Allegory of Spring. Artist: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42-1609 Ancona). Dimensions: sheet: 8 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (22 x 35 cm). Date: 1579.Related to the frescoed ceiling of Federico's home in Florence ('Casa Zuccari'), this newly discovered drawing presents the season of Spring as a combat between Chastity and Love. In the central fountain, a virgin is seated beside a unicorn who purifies the fountain with his horn. At left, the chaste nymphs of the huntress Diana are seen bathing, while at right other nymphs dance around a statue of Flora and are attacked by cupids' arrows. All these features appear in the fresco, but the drawing contains additional figures-nymphs of Diana who break one cupid's bow and bind another, as well as cupids who fight with each other. The more complicated iconography of the drawing, together with its rectangular format-the fresco fields are irregularly shaped-and elaborate border, suggest that Federico may have

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Study for The Allegory of Spring. Artist: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42-1609 Ancona). Dimensions: sheet: 8 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (22 x 35 cm). Date: 1579.Related to the frescoed ceiling of Federico's home in Florence ('Casa Zuccari'), this newly discovered drawing presents the season of Spring as a combat between Chastity and Love. In the central fountain, a virgin is seated beside a unicorn who purifies the fountain with his horn. At left, the chaste nymphs of the huntress Diana are seen bathing, while at right other nymphs dance around a statue of Flora and are attacked by cupids' arrows. All these features appear in the fresco, but the drawing contains additional figures-nymphs of Diana who break one cupid's bow and bind another, as well as cupids who fight with each other. The more complicated iconography of the drawing, together with its rectangular format-the fresco fields are irregularly shaped-and elaborate border, suggest that Federico may have

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