Francesco Zucchi
Francesco Zucchi (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko ˈdzukki]; Venice, 1692-1764),[1] was an Italian engraver, active mainly in Northern Italy.
Biography
He was the brother of Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740),[2] and was instructed by him in Pordenone.[3] He is also described as close to Pietro Scalvini.[4]
He was invited to Dresden to engrave some plates from the pictures in the Gallery but his work was interrupted by the Seven Years' War.[3] According to Henry Fuseli, Zucchi never actually went to Dresden but he was sending his works from Venice instead.[3] His artistic production includes reproductions of paintings, city views of Venice, Brescia, Brixen (Bressanone) and many illustrations for books[5] including the 1742 Italian translation of the Paradise Lost by Milton.[6] He died in 1764.
References
- ↑ "Francesco Zucchi the Younger". artnet.com.
- ↑ "Andrea Zucchi". artnet.com.
- 1 2 3 "Franceso Zucchi". Il website cartografico e grafico della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.
- ↑ Dictionary of Brescian painters.
- ↑ "Zucchi's book illustrations". AbeBooks.com.
- ↑ "Illustration to Book X". Christ's College University of Cambridge.
External links
- "Franceso Zucchi - List of works". Il website cartografico e grafico della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.
- Marianna Iafelice. "Il ritratto inciso in alcune settecentine della Biblioteca Provinciale di Foggia "La Magna Capitana"" (PDF). Biblioteca Provinciale di Foggia.
- This article incorporates text from the article "Zucchi, Francesco" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.