Jacopo Zucchi (ca. 1540–1596)

• Jacopo Zucchi was a Florentine painter.
• His training began in the studio of Giorgio Vasari.
• 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).
• 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.
• His brother Francesco Zucchi became a noted mosaicist and died in 1621.
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