Francesco Zucchi

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

Biography

He was the brother of Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740) and Carlo Zucchi (1682-1767)[2] and was instructed by Andrea 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. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-10-22.

Attribution:

  •  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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