Design for a "Quarantore" Decoration

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Artist: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona)
Date: 1540–1609
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 15-5/16 x 11-1/4 in. (38.9 x 28.5 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Lord Palumbo, David T. Schiff, Drue Heinz and W. Mark Brady Gifts, in memory of Jacob Bean, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1993
Accession no.: 1993.120

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Scene from the Last Judgment, Study for the Fresco Decoration of One of the Segments of the Cupola of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)
1576–79 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020913
Paradise
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)
1565–77 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020922
The Vision of Saint Eustace
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)
1542–1609 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020930
The Virgin and Child with Saint Joseph, Attendant Angels, and a Group of Supplicants
Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)
1540/41–1609 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020935

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.