Jacopo Zucchi trained with Giorgio Vasari. While assisting in the decoration of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio as early as 1557 and again between 1563 and 1565, he learning Vasari's allusions and conceits. Zucchi's earliest drawing dates from a trip with Vasari to Pisa in 1561. In 1564 Zucchi entered the Accademia del Disegno and helped with Michelangelo's funeral decorations. He was also Vasari's chi
