(b Florence, c. 1540; d Rome, before 3 April 1596).
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was trained in the studio of Vasari,
whom he assisted in the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, as
early as 1557. He accompanied Vasari to Pisa in 1561, from when dates
his earliest known drawing, Aesculapius (London, BM). Between
1563 and 1565 he was again in Florence and is documented working with
Vasari, Joannes Stradanus and Giovan Battista Naldini on the ceiling of
the Sala Grande (Salone dei Cinquecento) in the Palazzo Vecchio; a
drawing of an Allegory of Pistoia (Florence, Uffizi) is related
to the ceiling allegories of Tuscan cities. In 1564 Zucchi entered the
Accademia del Disegno and contributed to the decorations erected for the
funeral of Michelangelo. He travelled to Rome with Vasari and was his
chief assistant on decorations in the Vatican in 1567 and 1572, where he
executed frescoes of scenes from the Life of St Peter Martyr in
the chaptel of S Pio V.
Psyche decouvre Eros
The Miracle of the Snow
1580
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican
The Toilet of Bathsheba
after 1573
Oil on panel, 120 x 144,7 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Age of Gold
c. 1565
Drawing
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum.
The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia
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