Editing Jacopo Amigoni

{{Short description|Italian painter}}
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| name          = Jacopo Amigoni
| image         = File:Self portrait by Jacopo Amigoni, probably London, 1730-1735, oil on canvas - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC01160.jpg
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| caption       = Self-portrait, 1730-1735
| birth_name    = Giacomo Amiconi
| birth_date    = 1682
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| death_date    = 1752
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| nationality   = [[Italy|Italian]]
| known_for     = [[Painting]]
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[[Image:Jacopo Amigoni - Juno Receiving the Head of Argos - WGA00272.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Juno Receiving the Head of Argos'' (1730-32) <br />Oil on canvas, 108 x 72 cm. <br />Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.]]

'''Jacopo Amigoni''' (c. 1685 – September 1752),<ref name="Cooper1874">{{cite book|author=Thompson Cooper|title=A New Biographical Dictionary: Containing Concise Notices of Eminent Persons of All Ages and Countries: and More Particularly of Distinguished Natives of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phhGJXvlcUkC&pg=PA48|year=1874|publisher=Macmillan|pages=48–}}</ref> also named '''Giacomo Amiconi''', was an Italian [[Painting|painter]] of the late-[[Baroque]] or [[Rococo]] period, who began his career in [[Venice]], but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous [[portrait]]s were much in demand.

==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>

==Partial anthology==
*[https://en.museumbredius.nl/product/amigoni-jacob-consul-marcus-curius-dentatus-prefers-turnips-to-the-samnites-presents/ ''Consul Marcus Curius Dentatus prefers turnips to the Samnites' gifts'']
*[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp06613&rNo=0&role=art ''Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914204203/https://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp06613&rNo=0&role=art |date=2008-09-14 }}
*[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp06613&rNo=1&role=art Print after Amigoni of ''Princess Amelia Sophia Eleanora''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914204406/https://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?LinkID=mp06613&rNo=1&role=art |date=2008-09-14 }}
*[http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp06613&role=art Prints after portraits by Amigoni.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119052517/http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp06613&role=art |date=2008-11-19 }}
*[http://www.ackland.org/art/collection/euroam/1700-1800/86.47.html ''Venus disarming cupid''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071004234904/http://www.ackland.org/art/collection/euroam/1700-1800/86.47.html |date=2007-10-04 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051231161950/http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=art&scheda=metamorfosi_5 ''Venus and Adonis'']

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==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Jacopo Amigoni - Bacchus and Ariadne - Google Art Project.jpg|Bacchus and Ariadne, 1740
File:Jacopo Amigoni - Venus and Adonis.jpg|Venus and Adonis
File:Circa 1750 portrait painting of the Infanta Maria Antonia of Spain (1729-1785) by Jacopo Amigoni (Prado).jpg|[[Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain|The Infanta María Antonia of Spain]], Daughter of [[Philip V of Spain|Philip V]], 1750
File:Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752) - Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51) - RCIN 401500 - Royal Collection.jpg|[[Frederick, Prince of Wales]], 1735
File:Jacopo amigoni, il cantante farinelli con amici, 1750-52 circa.JPG|The singer [[Farinelli]] and friends, 1750 or 1752
File:Jacopo Amigoni – Ritratto di Farinelli.jpg|Portrait of the singer Carlo Broschi named Farinelli, 1734/1735
</gallery>

==References==
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* {{Art UK bio}}

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