Jacopo Amigoni
Paintings
The Assumption of the Virgin
Portrait of Carlo Broschi called Farinelli
Diana and Callisto
Jacob and Rachel
Peter I with Minerva with the Allegorical Figure of Glory
Bacchus and Ariadne
Flora and Zephyr
Bacchus and Ariadne
Venus and Adonis
Portrait of Antonia Maria Fernanda
Portrait of the Marquis of Ensenada
Holy Face
Joseph in the Pharaohs Palace
The cup in Benjamins bag
David and Bathseba
The Crowning of Homer
Putti playing with a Cat
Pygmalion and Galatea
Venus And Adonis 2
Peter I with Minerva with the Allegorical Figure of Glory
Joseph in the Pharaoh's Palace
Portrait of Antonia Maria Fernanda de Borbón-Farnese, Infanta of Spain
Zenon de Somodevilya and Bengochea, the Marquis of Ensenada
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Bacchus and Ariadne
Jacopo Amigoni (1682–1752), also named Giacomo Amiconi, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, who began his career in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand.
Biography
He was born in Naples or Venice. Amigoni initially painted both mythological and religious scenes; but as the panoply of his patrons expanded northward, he began producing many parlour works depicting gods in sensuous languor or games. His style influenced Giuseppe Nogari. Among his pupils were Charles Joseph Flipart, Michelangelo Morlaiter, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Joseph Wagner, and Antonio Zucchi.[1]
Starting in 1717, he is documented as working in Bavaria in the Castle of Nymphenburg (1719); in the castle of Schleissheim (1725–1729); and in the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren. He returned to Venice in 1726. His Arraignment of Paris hangs in the Villa Pisani at Stra. From 1730 to 1739 he worked in England, in Pown House, Moor Park Wolterton Hall and in the Theatre of Covent Garden. From there, he helped convince Canaletto to travel to England by telling him of the ample patronage available.
From his travel to Paris in 1736, he met the celebrated castrato Farinelli. Later in Madrid, he was to paint a self-portrait with the singer and entourage.[2] He also encountered the painting of François Lemoyne and Boucher.
In 1739 he returned to Italy, perhaps to Naples and surely to Montecassino, in whose Abbey existed two canvases (destroyed during World War II). Until 1747, he travelled to Venice to paint for Sigismund Streit, for the Casa Savoia and other buildings of the city. In 1747 he left Italy and established himself in Madrid. There he became court painter to Ferdinand VI of Spain and director of the Royal Academy of Saint Fernando. He died in Madrid.
Partial anthology
Consul Marcus Curius Dentatus prefers turnips to the Samnites' gifts
Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Print after Amigoni of Princess Amelia Sophia Eleanora
Prints after portraits by Amigoni.
Venus disarming cupid.
Venus and Adonis
References
Getty Museum Biography
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