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Maria Zacchè was born in Mantua, Italy, and attended art school there.
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She specialized in pen and ink drawings. Most of her work represent historical buildings, but she also drew allegories and religious images. 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 of years.
She drew suggestive pen and ink views of the interior of the crypt. In 1988 she published a book of drawings about the life of Saint San 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.
