In the history of art, Francesco Zuccarelli is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Francesco Zuccarelli as Italian painter (1702-1788).
Francesco Zuccarelli was born at Venice in 1702. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, printmaker and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is rococo.
Among his best-known works are Idyllic River Landscape with Figures and Landscape with St John the Baptist. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Francesco Zuccarelli died in 1788, aged 86. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Idyllic River Landscape with Figures
- Notable work: Landscape with St John the Baptist
- Movement: Rococo
