Jacopo Zucchi - The Assembly of the Gods

Jacopo Zucchi (c. 1541- c. 1590) was a Florentine painter of the

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...

style, active in Florence and Rome. His training began in the studio of

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

, and he participated in decoration of the ''Studiolo'' and the ''Salone dei Cinquecento'' in the Palazzo Vecchio. Moving to Rome in the early 1570s, he worked for Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici in his Palazzo Firenze (1574), for whom he also probably produced the oil on panel paintings '' The Golden Age'' and ''

The Silver Age ''The Silver Age'' is a c.1576-1581 oil on panel painting of the Silver Age by Jacopo Zucchi, a favoured artist of Ferdinando I de' Medici at the end of the latter's cardinalate in Rome, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It and '' The Golden Age' ...

'' (both c.1576-1581, both now in the

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). He also helped decorate, along with his brother Francesco, the apse and dome of

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with a fresco of the ''Pentecost''. He painted the grand salon of the former Rucellai (now

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) palace in Rome with mythologic genealogies. Two canvases, representing the ''Ascension'' and ''Resurrection'', are housed in the church of San Lorenzo Martire in

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(Italy). His brother Francesco Zucchi became a noted mosaicist, and died in 1621.

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* 1541 births 1590s deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters Fresco painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub