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Maria Zacchè is an Italian Artist (Mantua 1933).
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She specializes in pen and ink drawings. Most of her works represent historical buildings, but she also draws allegories and religious images.
Biography
Maria Zacchè was born in Mantua, Italy, and attended art school there. She drew during her free time while day working in a shop.
During a trip to Tuscany she discovered the crypt of San Miniato that had been closed for more than one hundred years. She drew pen and ink views of the interior, spending three months studying and drawing the crypt with her colleague and friend Anna Maria Rusconi.
In 1988 Zacchè published a book of drawings about the life of Saint Luigi Gonzaga. The book contains 90 pen and ink drawings that symbolically represent the main stages of his life, and his pilgrimage in Italy, France, and Spain. Anna Maria Rusconi wrote a biography of the saint to accompany the drawings.
In 1991 she held an exhibition of her work in the Cathedral of Mantua.