Giuseppe Carlo Zucchi (1721 – 1805) was an Italian engraver.

Biography

Zucchi was born in

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. 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

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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

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as sources for his 1810 biography of painter

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, although Zucchi's 1786 manuscript is not known to have survived. He died in Venice in 1805.

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1721 births 1805 deaths Italian engravers Republic of Venice artists {{Italy-engraver-stub