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Vincenzo Meucci

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Fresco at Cappella Brancacci, Florence
Fresco at San Lorenzo, Florence

Vincenzo Meucci (1694–1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque 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. 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

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References

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  • Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 97.
  • Drawing's from Lille. Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Review author[s]: Luisa Vertova
  • The Burlington Magazine (1992) p 141–2.