Editing Jacopo Amigoni (section)

==Biography==
He was born in [[Naples]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/iacopo-amigoni_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ | title=AMIGONI, Iacopo in "Dizionario Biografico" }}</ref> 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 (engraver)|Joseph Wagner]], and [[Antonio Zucchi]].<ref>[http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500016473  Getty Museum Biography]</ref>

Starting in 1717, he is documented as working in [[Bavaria]] in the [[Nymphenburg Palace|Castle of Nymphenburg]] (1719); in the [[Schleissheim Palace|castle of Schleissheim]] (1725–1729); and in the [[Ottobeuren Abbey|Benedictine abbey]] of [[Ottobeuren]]. He returned to Venice in 1726. His ''Arraignment of Paris'' hangs in the [[Villa Pisani, Stra|Villa Pisani]] at [[Stra]]. From 1730 to 1739 he worked in [[England]], in  [[Pown House]], [[Moor Park (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.

In London or during a trip to [[Paris]] in 1736, he met the celebrated [[castrato]] [[Farinelli]], whose portrait he painted twice in 1735 and again in 1752. Amigoni also encountered the painting of [[François Lemoyne]] and [[François 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). He travelled to Venice to paint for [[Sigismund Streit]], for the [[Casa Savoia]] and other buildings of the city.

In 1747 he left Italy for Madrid, encouraged by Farinelli, who held a court appointment there. He became [[court painter]] to [[Ferdinand VI of Spain]] and director of the [[Royal Academy of Saint Fernando]]. He painted a group portrait that included himself, Farinelli, Metastasio, Teresa Castellini, and an unidentified young man.<ref>[https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/3701/  National Gallery of Victoria, "Farinelli and Friends"]</ref> The young man may have been the Austrian Archduke Joseph, the Habsburg heir to the throne.<ref>Daniel Heartz, ''Artists and Musicians: Portrait Studies from the Rococo to the Revolution'', Steglein Publishing, 2014, pp. 35-42</ref> Amigoni died in Madrid.

Amigoni was the father of the pastellist [[Caterina Amigoni Castellini]], and the brother of the artist [[Carlotta Amigoni]].<ref>[http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/Amigoni.pdf Profile of Caterina Amigoni Castellini] in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Dictionary of pastellists before 1800|last=Jeffares, Neil.|date=2006|publisher=Unicorn Press|isbn=0906290864|oclc=470464171}}</ref>