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Zacchia, Lorenzo, il giovane
(b Lucca, bapt 27 Dec 1524; d c. 1587). Italian painter. He was a cousin of the Lucchese painter Ezechia da Vezzano, known as Zacchia il vecchio ( fl 1510–60), who probably brought him up and from whom he learnt to paint in the Florentine High Renaissance style. However, his Adoration of the Shepherds (1576; Lucca, Mus. & Pin. N.) is in an obviously mature style that owes something to the Mannerist compositions of Bronzino, particularly to his altarpiece (1564) on the same subject for S Stefano dei Cavalieri, Pisa. Two other reliably datable works, from the 1580s, feature typical Counter-Reformation themes: a Virgin and Child with SS Louis and John the Evangelist (1585; Lucca, S Paolino) and a Crucifixion with SS Lawrence and Julian (1587; Lucca, S Anastasio). Lorenzo treated these subjects in a style closer to that of Zacchia il vecchio and Fra Bartolommeo.
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