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Zucchi Group
Zucchi is an Italian surname, and may refer to: * Ángel Zucchi (born c. 1924), Argentine hockey player * Antonio Zucchi (1726-1795), Italian painter * Augusto Zucchi (born 1946), Italian actor and theatre director * Carlo Zucchi (general) (1777–1863), Italian general and patriot * Carlo Zucchi (1789–1849), Italian architect * Dino Zucchi (1927-2011), Italian basketball player * Francesco Zucchi (1692-1764), Italian engraver * Franco Zucchi (other), several people * Giacomo Zucchi (c.1800–1820), Italian composer in Milan and student of Alessandro Rolla * Giovanni Zucchi (1931–2021), Italian rower * Giuseppe Zucchi (1721-1805), Italian engraver * Jacopo Zucchi (1541-1590), Florentine painter * Niccolò Zucchi (1586-1670), Italian Jesuit astronomer and physicist * Roby Zucchi (born 1951), Italian water-skier noted for slalom * Thaila Zucchi (born 1981), Italian-English singer and actress * Virginia Zucchi Virginia Zucchi (10 February 1849 – 12 October 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Zucchi
Ángel Angel Zucchi (born c. 1924) is a field hockey player who competed for Argentina at the 1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ..., he played in all three group games. References External links * Olympic field hockey players for Argentina Argentine male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1948 Summer Olympics 1920s births Possibly living people {{Argentina-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Rolla
Alessandro Rolla (; 23 April 175714 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher. His son, Antonio Rolla, was also a violin virtuoso and composer. His fame now rests mainly as "teacher of the great Paganini", yet his role was very important in the development of violin and viola technique. Some of the technical innovations that Paganini later used largely, such as left-hand pizzicato, chromatic ascending and descending scales, the use of very high positions on violin and viola, octave passages, were first introduced by Rolla. Life Rolla was born in Pavia, Italy, in 1757 and after his initial studies he moved to Milan where, from 1770 to 1778, he studied with Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, Maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral, who was the most important musician in Milan after G. B. Sammartini. Charles Burney, in his musical tour in Italy, refers to Fioroni to acquire information about the Ambrosian Chant. In 1772, he made his first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaila Zucchi
Thaila Lucia Zucchi (; born 19 January 1981) is a British singer and actress of English and Italian descent. She began her career as a member of the British band allSTARS* before transitioning into acting, appearing in '' Big Brother 8'' in the UK, where she played the part of fake Australian housemate Pauline. She has also appeared in '' Balls of Steel'' and ''Star Stories'', as well as the TV series ''Blandings''. Music career Zucchi was a member of allSTARS*, a band that started out on the children's television show ''STARStreet'' (shown on CITV). She performed in more than twenty arenas around the UK, and on ''Top of the Pops'', '' CD:UK'', and ''SMTV'' numerous times. The band was contracted to Island Records and enjoyed four top 20 hits and released an album, with tracks that were featured in the movies ''Thunderpants'' and '' Scooby Doo''. Zucchi remains close friends with the other band members. Television career Zucchi appeared in Channel 4's '' Balls of Steel''. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roby Zucchi
Roby Luigi Zucchi (born October 9, 1951 in Genoa, Italy Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of Ge ...) is an Italian former water-skier noted for slalom. He won a gold medal at the 1972 Olympics, where water skiing was an exhibition event. Later he won the slalom at the 1975 world championships. In 1995 he was inducted into the Water Skiing Hall of Fame. iwsf.com References 1951 births Water skiers at the 197 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niccolò Zucchi
Niccolò Zucchi (; December 6, 1586 – May 21, 1670) was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist. As an astronomer he may have been the first to see the belts on the planet Jupiter (on May 17, 1630), and reported spots on Mars in 1640. His "''Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta''", published in 1652–56, described his 1616 experiments using a curved mirror instead of a lens as a telescope objective, which may be the earliest known description of a reflecting telescope. In his book he also demonstrated that phosphors generate rather than store light. He also published two other works on mechanics and machines. Biography Niccolò Zucchi was fourth of eight children born into the noble family of Pierre Zucchi and Francoise Giande Marie. Three of his sisters became nuns, three of his brothers became Jesuits, and one brother became a secular priest. The Jesuit order Niccolò studied rhetoric in Piacenza and philosophy and theology in Parma. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacopo Zucchi
Jacopo Zucchi (c. 1541- c. 1590) was a Florentine painter of the Mannerist style, active in Florence and Rome. His training began in the studio of Giorgio Vasari, 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 Golden Age refers to a mythological period of primeval human existence perceived as an ideal state when human beings were pure and free from suffering. Golden Age may also refer to: * Golden age (metaphor), the classical term used as a metaphor ...'' and '' The Silver Age'' (both c.1576-1581, both now in the Uffizi). He also helped decorate, along with his brother Francesco, the apse and dome of Santo Spirito in Sassia with a fresco of the ''Pentecost''. He painted the grand salon of the former Rucellai (now R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Zucchi
Giuseppe Carlo Zucchi (1721 – 1805) was an Italian engraver. Biography Zucchi was born in Venice. He was an older brother of the painter Antonio Zucchi. He studied in Venice with Francesco Zugno. He began working as an assistant to his father, who worked as an engraver, but did not sign pieces himself until after his father's death in 1764. In 1766, he travelled to London with his brother Antonio, and produced four engraved plates for volumes 2 and 3 of ''Works in Architecture'' by Robert and James Adam. Returning to Italy in 1779, he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome. His writings include ''Memorie cronologiche della famiglia'' (1786) and ''Memorie istoriche di Maria Angelica Kauffmann Zucchi'' (1788). These were used by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi as sources for his 1810 biography of painter Angelica Kauffmann Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Zucchi
Giovanni Zucchi (14 August 1931 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian rower who competed in the 1956, 1960, and the 1964 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in 1960. He won five gold medals at European Rowing Championships. Zucchi was born in Mandello del Lario. At the 1954 European Rowing Championships, Zucchi won gold with the coxless four. At the 1956 European Rowing Championships, Zucchi regained his European title. Later that year, he was a crew member of the Italian boat that finished fourth in the coxless four event at the 1956 Summer Olympics. For the 1957 European Rowing Championships, Zucchi changed to the eight and won gold; he repeated this success at the 1958 European Rowing Championships. At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal with the Italian boat in the coxed four competition. For the 1961 European Rowing Championships, Zucchi was back in the eight and they won gold. At the 1963 European Rowing Championships, he was part of the coxless four that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Zucchi
Jacopo Zucchi (c. 1541- c. 1590) was a Florentine painter of the Mannerist style, active in Florence and Rome. His training began in the studio of Giorgio Vasari, 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'' (both c.1576-1581, both now in the Uffizi). He also helped decorate, along with his brother Francesco, the apse and dome of Santo Spirito in Sassia with a fresco of the ''Pentecost''. He painted the grand salon of the former Rucellai (now Ruspoli) palace in Rome with mythologic genealogies. Two canvases, representing the ''Ascension'' and ''Resurrection'', are housed in the church of San Lorenzo Martire in San Lorenzo Nuovo San Lorenzo Nuovo is a small town and ''comune'' in the province of Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Zucchi
Antonio Pietro Francesco Zucchi (1 May 1726 – 1 December 1795) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period. Life Zucchi was born in Venice, he studied under his uncle Carlo Zucchi and later Francesco Fontebasso and Jacopo Amigoni. He married the painter Angelica Kauffman in 1781, who late in life moved with him to Rome. In Rome Zucchi produced a number of etchings of '' capriccio'' and ''veduta'' of classical buildings or ruins. He worked with Robert Adam in the decoration of houses in England, including Kenwood, Newby Hall, Osterley Park, Nostell Priory, and Luton House. In 1756, he was elected to the membership of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. In England, he was elected as an associate to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1770. Lady Boringdon commissioned him to paint the ceilings of rooms redesigned by Robert Adam at Saltram House in Devon. She also bought paintings from his wife for the house. He died in Rome , established_title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Zucchi
image:Francesco Zucchi.JPG, 250px, ''Self-portrait'' by Francesco Zucchi, 1733 Francesco Zucchi (Venice, 1692–1764), was an Italian people, Italian engraving, engraver, active mainly in Northern Italy. Biography He was the brother of Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740), and was instructed by him in Pordenone. He is also described as close to Pietro Scalvini. 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. According to Henry Fuseli, 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 (Bressanone) and many illustrations for books including the 1742 Italian translation of the Paradise Lost by Milton. He died in 1764. References Attribution: * External links * * 1690s births 1764 deaths Italian engravers {{Italy-engraver-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
