Federico Zuccaro (1540/42–1609)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Also knows as Federico Zuccari. 

• He was born in Sant'Angelo in Vado in the Duchy of Urbino, the son of the painter Ottaviano de Zucharellis.

• His career as a painter is documented from 1550, when he moved to Rome in the workshop of his elder brother Taddeo Zuccari.
• Between 1563 and 1565 he was active in Venice with the Grimani family of Santa Maria Formosa.
• On 14 October 1565 he was accepted into the Accademia del Disegno in Florence.
• He later joined the Company of St. John of the Holy Land, to which his brother Taddeo had already been associated since November 17, 1560.
• On 29 December 1573 Federico became its first regent for life, a position held in the future only by Antonio Canova.
• In 1592 he drew up the foundations of the statute of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, of which he became Prince in 1593.
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