Leopoldo Zuccolo Biography
Leopoldo Zuccolo was born in Udine in 1760 and was an initial pupil of the engraver Variente Percoto and then of the painter Giovanni Battista de Rubeis. When he reached his twenties, Zuccolo moved to Venice to attend the Academy. Returning to Udine, he attempted painting and engraving without great success, but was active in teaching drawing at colleges, in restoration work, in the study of local artistic history and in antiques, in particular in glyptics, which it earned him the appointment, by the French government, of the position of "superintendent" of the excavations of Aquileia. As superintendent, he opened the first public museum in Aquileia, called the "Museo Eugeniano". Zuccolo is known for some examples of paintings that show a strong influence of de Rubeis. As an art scholar, he collaborated in various projects, including the design, together with Percoto and Girolamo Asquini, of a volume to collect reproductions of the frescoes on the buildings of Udine, which unfortunately was never realised. In 1793, he published a modest treatise entitled "Picturesque Reflections". Zuccolo died in Udine in 1833.
