Francesco Zucchi

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

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. Click [show] for important translation instructions.

Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Francesco Zucchi (graveur)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Francesco Zucchi (graveur)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Biography

He was the brother of Andrea (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.

Remove ads

Biography

References

External links

Wikiwand - on