Jacopo Amigoni

Jacopo Amigoni
Self-portrait, 1730-1735
Born
Giacomo Amiconi

1682
Died1752
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
Juno Receiving the Head of Argos (1730-32)
Oil on canvas, 108 x 72 cm.
Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.

Jacopo Amigoni (c. 1685 – September 1752),[1] 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.

  1. ^ Thompson Cooper (1874). 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. Macmillan. pp. 48–.