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"Oblong folio (16 x 22 inches). Fine engraved title-page, 24 engraved plates (lacking the engraved dedication leaf and the plan of Florence). Later marbled paper boards. Provenance: with the small green morocco library label of Charles Filippi, his sale Tajan, Paris, 21st October 1994, lot 173; From the Collection of Prince and Princess Henry De la Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais, their sale, Sotheby's London, 3rd May, 2012 , lot 491 Later edition, first published as "Scelta de XXIV vedute delle principali contrade, piazza, chiese, e palazzo dell citta di Firenze" in 1744. The son of a sand-digger from Fiesole, Zocchi " was apprenticed to that important figure of the Florentine Baroque, Ranieri del Pace. On the latter's death (in 1738), it was Gabburri who offered his support, as did the wealthy Marchese Andrea Gerini. Zocchi very probably studied perspective, which he enriched with trips to Rome, Bologna and to the North of Italy. He was awarded the prize for young students in the painting class at the Accademia in 1737, and in 1741 was admitted to the first year. Between 1739 and 1741, he must also have travelled to Venice, where he was Joseph Wagner's student and where he learned the art of engraving. Gabburri had encouraged him in this field by having him draw the paintings of various artists in the churches in Florence to be used as basis for engravings. It must be emphasised, however, that although Zocchi is primarily known in the modern age as a draughtsman and view painter, he was in his own time pre-eminently a figure painter, even in his architectural and landscape works. Proof of this lies in Gabburri's own words, when he mentions how Zocchi would pass from landscape painting "after having painted figures in oil, and architecture a fresco and in tempera"… "Zocchi's most famous work is his two-fold series of engravings published in 1744, promoted and paid for by the Marchese Gerini, entitled Selection of XXIV Views of the principal Districts, Squares, Churches, and Palaces of the City of Florence and of Views of Villas and of Places in Tuscany, made after Zocchi's own drawings. The complete set of drawings (probably the set owned by Zocchi's patron, Gerini) consisting of seventy-seven sheets, is now in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York" (Roberto Contini for the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza).". N° de ref. del artículo 72lib844
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