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| Taddeo Zuccaro Sleeping Apostles for Agony in the Garden before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Drapery Study with Standing Old Man holding a Book before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Charlemagne confirming the union of Ravenna and other Territories of the Church before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Group of Figures for Adoration of the Shepherds before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Taddeo Zuccaro Group of Warriors before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Taddeo Zuccaro Head of Bearded Man wearing a Gorget before 1566 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"The highly characterized Maniera accent of the later Francesco Salviati was rather the exception than the rule in Rome after the middle of the century. The younger painters who emerged at that time began to manifest a different taste, more moderate and in general more evidently classicistic. Of this younger generation the most gifted was Taddeo Zuccaro, unhappily short-lived (1529-1566); he was also the least restrictive of the younger painters in his style and the one still most attuned to high Maniera. Born in the Marches, near Urbino, he came at the age of fourteen to Rome, where he received his training from painters of no consequence. His true education was self-won, in particular by study of Raphael and the models of the Raphaelesque school of the first Maniera."
"Federico Zuccaro (1539-1609) inherited the commissions which Taddeo left unfinished at his death in 1566. Some thirteen years Taddeo's junior, Federico had been brought up by his brother and early became his helper. He was also painting independently, however, well before his twentieth year. . . . Federico's skill of hand does not seem less than Taddeo's ; however, the mentality that moves the hand does not inspire it in the same way. Federico's attitude towards what he represents seems more detached than Taddeo's, but he is more attached to habits of classicistic correctness and routine."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Federico Zuccaro after Michelangelo Statue of Dawn in the Medici Chapel, Florence ca. 1590-1600 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Demons in Grotesque Attitudes before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Allegorical Figure of Peace ca. 1567-69 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Figure seated at the Harpsichord, another listening before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro St Francis of Assisi receiving the Stigmata in a Mountain Gorge before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Matthias and Barnabas praying over which is to replace Judas as Apostle before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Virgin and Apostles before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Federico Zuccaro Head of a Girl before 1609 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |