Jacopo Zucchi

Private collection His training began in the studio of Giorgio Vasari, and he participated in the 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 (Italy). His brother Francesco Zucchi became a noted mosaicist and died in 1621.

Training under Giorgio Vasari is recorded. Francesco Zucchi is recorded as having studied under Jacopo Zucchi. The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Holy Family, The Silver Age, Hercules Musagetes and the gods of Olympus, The Miracle of the Snow, Procession of Saint Gregory the Great and The Golden Age. Work by Jacopo Zucchi is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Museum of Estonia, J. Paul Getty Museum, Nationalmuseum and National Gallery of Canada.