Francesco Zucchi

Francesco Zucchi (Venice, 1692–1764),[1] was an Italian engraver, active mainly in Northern Italy.

Self-portrait by Francesco Zucchi, 1733

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
  1. "Francesco Zucchi the Younger". artnet.com.
  2. "Andrea Zucchi". artnet.com.
  3. "Franceso Zucchi". Il website cartografico e grafico della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.
  4. Dictionary of Brescian painters.
  5. "Zucchi's book illustrations". AbeBooks.com.
  6. "Illustration to Book X". Christ's College University of Cambridge.

Attribution:

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Zucchi, Francesco". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.



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