The Lament of the Art of Painting, 1579, Engraving; two plates printed on two sheets, Sheet (upper plate) : 14 1/4 ? 21 1/8 in. (36. 2 ? 53. 7 cm), Prints, Cornelis Cort (Netherlandish, Hoorn ca. 1533?1578 Rome), after Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42?1609 Ancona), This most ambitious allegory of the art of painting is also a highly personal work: it is generally accepted that the print was prompted by the criticism the Italian painter Federico Zuccaro endured after he finished the decoration of the dome of the Florence Cathedral in 1574