II. FEDERIGO ZUCCARO (C. 1539-1609) was in 1550 placed under his brother. Taddeo's charge in Rome, and worked as his assist ant ; he completed the Caprarola frescoes. Federigo was perhaps the most popular artist of his generation. Probably no other painter has ever produced so many enormous frescoes crowded with figures on the most colossal scale, extravagant in attitude.
His first work of this sort was the completion of the painting of the dome of the cathedral at Florence in 1579; the work had been begun by Vasari but left unfinished at his death. Federigo was recalled to Rome by Gregory XIII. to continue in the Pauline chapel of the Vatican the scheme of decoration begun by Michel angelo during his failing years, but he left Italy owing to a quarrel with members of the papal court. He visited Brussels, and there made a series of cartoons for the tapestry-weavers. In 1574 he went to England, where he received commissions to paint the por traits of Queen Elizabeth, Mary, queen of Scots, Sir Nicholas Bacon, Sir Francis Walsingham, Lord High Admiral Howard and others. Federigo was soon recalled to Rome to finish his work on the vault of the Pauline chapel. In 1585 he accepted an offer by Philip II. of Spain to decorate the new Escorial at a yearly salary of 2,000 crowns. He returned to Rome in 1588 and there founded in 1595, under a charter confirmed by Sixtus V., the Academy of St. Luke, of which he was the first president. Its organization sug gested to Sir Joshua Reynolds the plan for the English Royal Academy.
He also wrote on art, see L'Idea de' Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti (Turin, 1607), and two volumes (Bologna 1608) de scribing his visit to Parma and a journey through central Italy. He died at Ancona in 1609.
west into the canton. Its steep western flanks fall to the Lake of Zug, the less steep eastern slopes descend to the basin and waters of the Aegeri See. Still eastwards, the land rises to the Hohe Rone mass (4,055 ft.) near its eastern boundary. From Aegeri a gorge carries the river Lorze to the low land at the north end of the Zugerberg, round which it curves to enter the lower end of the Lake of Zug. The Lorze leaves this lake slightly west of its point of entrance and flows north-north-west, over fertile lowlands, to its junction with the river Reuss—the latter stream forming the north-west boundary of the canton. Zug thus holds a strategical position at the entrance to the higher land. Railways connect the capital both with Lucerne and with Zurich, while lines running along the shores of the Lake of Zug join at the Arth-Goldau station of the St. Gotthard railway. (See ScHwYz.) An electric railway connects Zug and Oberaegeri; 2* m. distant, on the south east of the lake, is Morgarten, the site of the great victory of the Confederates over the Habsburgs (1315). In 1930 the total popu lation was 34,395, of whom 32,897 were German-speaking, i,00i Italian-speaking, and 294 French-speaking, while 29,211 were Catholics, 5,015 Protestants, and 46 Jews. Since 1928 the canton has formed part of the diocese of Basle. All towns are small. Zug (pop. 9,50o) is the largest ; north of it is Baar, and west-north-west is Cham, which, though next in order of size, are merely large vil lages. The canton forms a single administrative district and contains i i communes. By the Constitution of 1814 the "Lands gemeinde," or primitive democratic assembly, which had existed since 1376, became an electoral body to choose a cantonal council. In 1848 the remaining functions of the Landsgemeinde were abol ished. The 1873-76 Cantonal Constitution was largely replaced by the present one in 1894. The legislature (Kantonsrat) of 79 deputies has one member to every 40o inhabitants, and the seven members of the executive (Regierungsrat) are elected directly by popular vote.