Meucci, Vincenzio

Meucci, Vincenzio a Florentine artist, born in 1694, was chiefly employed in works of perspective, which he executed at various places in Tuscany, and in the cupola of the royal chapel in S. Lorenzo. Several works of Meucci are dispersed through various churches in Florence, and in a chapel of the Wunziata, where he painted a lovely Madonna, which is allowed to be one of his best works. He died in 1776. See Lanzi's History of Painting, transl. by Roscoe (London, 1847, 3 volumes, 8vo), 1:253.