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Vincenzo Meucci (1694–1766) was an Italian painter of the late-
Vincenzo Meucci (1694–1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period. Born in Florence. He was a pupil first of the painter Sebastiano Galeotti, then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna.
He was patronized by the Marchese Giovan Battista Salimbeni of Siena, as well as the cardinals Alessandro Chigi Zondadari and Neri Corsini Corsini is an Italian surname.
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. His masterpiece was a commission by Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, the last Medici resident of the Pitti Palace, who contracted him to fresco the cupola of the Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze with the ''Glory of Florentine Saints'' (1742).
Among his pupils are Tommaso Gherardini.
Selected works
*Frescoes for Chapel of San Mauro, Badia Fiorentina, Florence (1717) *''Madonna del Rosario'', Santa Lucia alla Castellina,Sesto Fiorentino
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History
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(1731)
*Frescoes for ceiling at the entrance of Ospedale di San Giovanni di Dio, Florence(1735)
*Frescoes for Palazzo Panciatichi, Florence (c. 1741)
*''Marriage of Virgin'' Church of San Paolino, Florence
*Altarpiece for church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence
*Ascension of Christ, frescoed on nave ceiling of San Salvatore al Vescovo, Florence
References
* *Drawing's from Lille. Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Review author Luisa Vertova *The Burlington Magazine (1992) p 141–2. 1694 births 1766 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub