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Under Ferdinando, Zucchi painted numerous panel paintings and frescoes with elaborate allegorical subjects referring to the Medici family’s power. This study is composed of three planes of space roughly sketched, first with chalk and then in pen and ink, with heavy pentimenti (or changes) throughout. In the foreground, groups of nude women bathe and recline, while in the background a mountain replete with human figures rises up into the clouds. In the middle ground, Orpheus (mentioned in the cryptic inscription), a figure from Greek mythology that successfully returns from the underworld, symbolically evokes the return of Medici rule to Florence. ","remarks":"Italian Drawings"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Letter from E. Billsbury in F. Gibbons files 6 Sept. 1968: old photo in Witt collection, London, attributes this to Parmigianino and notes ownership by A. L. Nicholson, London, 1927.;","remarks":"From accession card. 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Feinberg, <EM>From studio to studiolo: Florentine draftsmanship under the first Medici grand dukes</EM>, (Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Seattle, WA: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1991).","citation":"Larry J. Feinberg, <EM>From studio to studiolo: Florentine draftsmanship under the first Medici grand dukes</EM>, (Oberlin, OH: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Seattle, WA: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1991)., p. 208-09, cat. no. 60; p. 209 (illus.)","date":1991,"id":5404,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/23870241"},{"boilertext":"Catherine Monbeig-Goguel and Françoise Viatte, <em>Inventaire général des dessins italiens</em>, (Paris: Editions des Musées nationaux, 1972-).","citation":"Catherine Monbeig-Goguel and Françoise Viatte, <em>Inventaire général des dessins italiens</em>, (Paris: Editions des Musées nationaux, 1972-)., Vol. 1: mentioned under cat. no. 362, p. 221","date":1972,"id":5405,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/17540781"},{"boilertext":"Jacob Bean, <em>Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, </em>(New York: October House, 1966).","citation":"Jacob Bean, <em>Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, </em>(New York: October House, 1966)., no. 22","date":1966,"id":691,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/686041"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":3540,"citation":"Italian Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University, October 14, 1966 - May 5, 1968","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"1966-10-14","enddate":"1968-05-05","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/3540"}],"geography":[],"terms":[{"id":2122311,"term":"myths","aatid":300201023,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2088270,"term":"men","aatid":300025928,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2031625,"term":"Italian","aatid":300111198,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2117846,"term":"pentimenti","aatid":300189805,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2134671,"term":"festivals","aatid":300073472,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2088280,"term":"women","aatid":300025943,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2051964,"term":"drawings","aatid":300033973,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2055657,"term":"figures (representations)","aatid":300189808,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055672,"term":"nudes","aatid":300189568,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2051797,"term":"studies (visual works)","aatid":300081053,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2160318,"term":"chalk","aatid":300011727,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2044331,"term":"laid paper","aatid":300014184,"termtype":"Materials"},{"id":2167672,"term":"ink","aatid":300015012,"termtype":"Materials"}],"classifications":[{"id":2051964,"classification":"drawings"},{"id":2051797,"classification":"studies (visual works)"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031625,"culture":"Italian"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"frame","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"53.33"},{"element":"frame","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"40.63"},{"element":"frame","type":"Depth","units":"centimeters","dimension":"3.17"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"27.80"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"21.40"}],"packages":[{"packageid":5241,"name":"Web_ID_4"},{"packageid":205616,"name":"exh_tour_Italian_Drawings"},{"packageid":210384,"name":"TDC-Final [4]"},{"packageid":218101,"name":"web_TDC-Final [5]"},{"packageid":182970,"name":"P&D_Drawings_Watercolors"},{"packageid":224527,"name":"Tour - It Draw"},{"packageid":207234,"name":"SAB_Gala2021"},{"packageid":216247,"name":"2022_ART233/ARC233_10_25-28"},{"packageid":212565,"name":"2022_ART442_03_31"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1947-151"],"displaymaker":"Jacopo Zucchi, Italian, ca. 1540 - before 1596","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, ca. 1540 - before 1596), Study for a Medici Commission, ca. 1574. 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