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| Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro Charlemagne confirms the Donation of Ravenna to the Church 1564-65 fresco Sala Reggia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Charlemagne confirms the Donation of Ravenna to the Church (detail) ca. 1564 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro Charlemagne confirms the Donation of Ravenna to the Church (detail) 1564-65 fresco Sala Reggia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Charlemagne confirms the Donation of Ravenna to the Church ca. 1564 drawing (study for fresco) Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro Charlemagne confirms the Donation of Ravenna to the Church (detail) 1564-65 fresco Sala Reggia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Europa and the Bull ca. 1560-65 drawing (study for fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola) Musée du Louvre |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1556 drawing (study for fresco, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Consolazione, Rome) Musée du Louvre |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Excommunication of Henry VIII of England ca. 1560-65 drawing (study for fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola) Musée du Louvre |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Hercules and Iole searching the shore for Murex (for purple dye) ca. 1560-65 drawing (study for fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola) Musée du Louvre |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Hercules presenting Iole with a Purple Robe ca. 1560-65 drawing (study for fresco, Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola) Musée du Louvre |
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| Federico Zuccaro Portrait of Michelangelo as Moses ca. 1593 fresco Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
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| Federico Zuccaro Portrait of Michelangelo as Moses ca. 1593 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Federico Zuccaro Portrait of Raphael as the Prophet Isaiah ca. 1593 fresco Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata |
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| Federico Zuccaro Prophet and Sibyl ca. 1573 drawing (study for fresco, Chiesa Santa Lucia del Gonfalone, Rome) Musée du Louvre |
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| Federico Zuccaro The Raising of Lazarus ca. 1563-64 drawing (study for fresco, Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna, Venice) Musée du Louvre |
Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566) and his brother Federico (1542/3-1609) – Important Roman painters born near Urbino, working in a chastened Mannerist idiom. Taddeo, the more naturally gifted of the two, came to Rome at the age of 14. Virtually self-taught through the study mainly of Raphael and his school, he first made his reputation c. 1548 as a painter of façades, none of which survives. Virtually all of his major commissions were finished after his death by Federico. Taddeo's style is tempered both by a retrospective classicism and by realism; at times he anticipates the 'reforming' mode of Annibale Carracci. He is nonetheless one of the most formally inventive decorative artists of his day, mingling illusionism of various types in a sophisticated but thematically apt and visually clear way. Federico, trained by his brother, began to paint on his own account before the age of 20. . . . His tendency to academic schemata made him an easy model, and he became widely imitated among contemporaries and even by older artists.
– from an entry by Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton in the Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)