250px, ''Self-portrait'' by Francesco Zucchi, 1733
Francesco Zucchi (Venice, 1692–1764),
was an
Italian
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engraver, active mainly in Northern Italy.
Biography
He was the brother of
Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740), and was instructed by him in
Pordenone
Pordenone (; Venetian and fur, Pordenon) is the main ''comune'' of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'.
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He is also described as close to
Pietro Scalvini
Pietro Scalvini (1718–1792) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and Neoclassic period, active in Brescia. He was inspired by TiepoloFigure della storia e della cronaca - Volume 26 - Page 819, by Paolo Guerrini - 1986. and active in fresc ...
.
He was invited to
Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...
to engrave some plates from the pictures in the Gallery but his work was interrupted by the
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict that involved most of the European Great Powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. Other concurrent conflicts include the French and Indian War (1754†...
.
[ According to ]Henry Fuseli
Henry Fuseli ( ; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli ; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as ''The Nightmare'', deal with supernatura ...
, Zucchi never actually went to Dresden but he was sending his works from Venice instead.[ His artistic production includes reproductions of paintings, city views of Venice, Brescia, ]Brixen
Brixen (, ; it, Bressanone ; lld, Porsenù or ) is a town in South Tyrol, northern Italy, located about north of Bolzano.
Geography
First mentioned in 901, Brixen is the third largest city and oldest town in the province, and the artistic and ...
(Bressanone) and many illustrations for books including the 1742 Italian translation of the Paradise Lost
''Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse (poetry), verse. A second edition fo ...
by Milton.
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1690s births
1764 deaths
Italian engravers
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