Francesco Zuccarelli

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Zuccarelli by Richard Wilson 1752

Francesco Zuccarelli RA (born August 15, 1702 in Pitigliano in Tuscany , † December 30, 1788 in Florence ) was an Italian painter , known for landscapes with antique backgrounds.

Life

Zuccarelli was a student of Giovanni Maria Morandis (1622-1717) and then with Pietro Nelli (1672-1740) in Rome . He is said to have also worked for the landscape painter Paolo Anesi in Florence around 1730 . From 1732 he settled in Venice . Possibly he was in London from 1742 to 1748, as a stage painter for the opera. From 1743 he was in Venice, where he worked with Bartolomeo Nazari for the Tassi family from 1747 to 1752 . It can also be found several times in Bergamo (1736, 1747, 1748, 1751). He had some English patrons and visited England several times, where he lived from 1752 (on the recommendation of the British consul in Venice Joseph Smith ) to 1771 or 1773 (except for a period from 1762 to 1765 in Venice, where he became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1763) and in 1768 was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy . After his time in England he moved to Florence and was also in Rome. Many of his paintings are in English collections (Windsor Castle, National Gallery) and in Venice. His students include Giuseppe Zais and Vittorio Amadeo Cignaroli .

In 1772 he became president of the Academy of Arts in Venice.

In landscape painting, he followed Marco Ricci in particular .

He signed his pictures with a small pumpkin (according to the meaning of his Italian name).

literature

  • Gilda Rosa Zuccarelli , GG Görlich, Milan 1952
  • Federica Spadotto: Francesco Zuccarelli. Alfieri, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-902804-1-2

Web links

Commons : Francesco Zuccarelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kindler's Malereilexikon
  2. ↑ Kindler's Malereilexikon mentions influences from Nicolas Poussin , Claude Lorrain and Andrea Locatelli
personal data
SURNAME Zuccarelli, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Pitigliano , Tuscany
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1788
Place of death Florence