Francesco Zucchi
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Self-portrait by Francesco Zucchi, 1733
Francesco Zucchi (Venice 1692-1764),[1] engraver, was born at Venice in 1692. He was the brother of Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740),[2] and was instructed by him in Pordenone.[3] 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 and many illustrations for books[4] including the 1742 Italian translation of the Paradise Lost by Milton.[5] He died in 1764.
References
- ↑ "Francesco Zucchi the Younger". artnet.com.
- ↑ "Andrea Zucchi". artnet.com.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Franceso Zucchi". Il website cartografico e grafico della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia.
- ↑ "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"". 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.
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