Jacopo Zucchi - The Assembly of the Gods

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

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

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, and he participated in the decoration of the ''Studiolo'' and the ''Salone dei Cinquecento'' in the

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. 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

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). He also helped decorate, along with his brother

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, 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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* 1540s births 1590s deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters Fresco painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub