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)