Giuseppe Zocchi
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Giuseppe Zocchi (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe dˈdzɔkki]; c. 1711–1767) was an Italian painter and printmaker active in Florence and best known for his vedute of the city.
Biography
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Born into a poor family, Zocchi began his training in his native Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini became his patron when he was very young, patronizing his further studies in Venice, Milan, Bologna, and Rome.
The Marchese Andrea Gerini commissioned Zocchi to record all the famous Florentine landmarks, which he did in a series of drawings, now in New York's Pierpont Morgan Library. A number of engravers based their etchings on Zocchi's drawings into engravings, which were issued in two series in 1744. One series consists of 25 vedute under the title Scelta XXIV vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della citta di Firenze; the other series consists of 50 vedute under the title Vedute delle ville e di altri luoghi della Toscana. The latter was published by Giuseppe Allegrini and included engravings by Zocchi himself, as well as Johann Gottfried Seutter, Giuseppe Benedetti, Pietro Monaco, Joseph Wagner, Giuseppe Filosi, Marc'Antonio Corsi, Niccolò Mogalli, Philoté François Duflos, Michele Marieschi, Vincenzo Franceschini, Giuliano Giampiccoli, Johann Sebastian Müller, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.[1]
He also painted frescoes for the Villa Serristori outside Porta Niccolò.[2] He painted frescoes depicting the Four Seasons in Palazzo Rinuccini. He also painted frescoes in the Gallery of the Gerini palace. He depicted in oil paintings the festivals held in Siena to celebrate the visit of Francis I Augustus. he was afflicted with the plague that ran through Siena and died upon returning to Florence.[3]
References
- ^ Metropolitan Museum collections.
- ^ It is unclear if these frescoes were lost during the alterations caused by the urban renewal of the Lungarno.
- ^ Biblioteca enciclopedica italiana, Volume 14, by Nicolo Bettoni; Milan (1831); page 134.
- Exhibition: Iconografia al tempo dei Riccardi at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.
External links
- Zocchi, Giuseppe, Vedute delle ville, e d'altri luoghi della Toscana, 1757. Internet Archive
- Ragni, Sara (2020). "ZOCCHI, Giuseppe". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 100: Vittorio Emanuele I–Zurlo (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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