Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752) - Itinerant Rococo

Jacopo Amigoni
Self Portrait
(painted in London)
ca. 1730-35
oil on canvas
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain
ca. 1735
oil on canvas
private collection

Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of architect Joseph Effner
ca. 1720-25
oil on canvas
Schleissheim Palace, Munich

Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of a Young Ecclesiastic
ca. 1740-45
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain
ca. 1747
oil on canvas
private collection

Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of a Lady
ca. 1729-39
drawing (colored chalks)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

attributed to Jacopo Amigoni
Portrait of a Musician
ca. 1740-50
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Jacopo Amigoni
Bacchus and Ariadne
ca. 1740
oil on canvas
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Jacopo Amigoni
Bathsheba at her Toilette
ca. 1740-50
oil on canvas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Jacopo Amigoni
Bathsheba at her Bath receives the Message of King David
1743
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Jacopo Amigoni
Susanna and the Elders
1743
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Jacopo Amigoni
Flora and Zephyr
ca. 1720
oil on canvas
Arkhangelskoye Palace, near Moscow

Jacopo Amigoni
Infants playing with a Bird
before 1752
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Egidio Martini, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Jacopo Amigoni
Sacrifice of Abraham
1743
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Jacopo Amigoni
Expulsion from Paradise
1728
ceiling fresco
Benedictine Abbey of Saints Alexander and Theodore,
Ottobeuren, Bavaria

"No less an international success was the more frivolous Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752).  Born in Naples, he must have arrived in Venice already experienced in [Francesco] Solimena's manner, but once again [Luca] Giordano and [Sebastiano] Ricci exercised the most important formative influence upon him.  In 1717 he was called to the Bavarian court where he painted his fresco cycles in Nymphenburg, Ottobeuren, and Schleissheim.  He lived in England between 1730 and 1739, but only his frescoes in Moor Park near London survive.  His last years from 1747 on he spent as court painter in Madrid.  His late manner degenerated into a languid and melodramatic classicizing Rococo, a trend paralleled in the works of other artists not only in Italy but also in France and England."

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 by Rudolf Wittkower (1958), revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu for Yale University Press (1999)