Jacopo Amigoni, 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.
Self-portrait, 1730-1735
Juno Receiving the Head of Argos (1730-32) Oil on canvas, 108 x 72 cm. Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Bacchus and Ariadne, 1740
Venus and Adonis
The Schleißheim Palace comprises three individual palaces in a grand Baroque park in the village of Oberschleißheim, a suburb of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The palace was a summer residence of the Bavarian rulers of the House of Wittelsbach.
Aerial image of the Schleißheim Palace
Old Palace Schleißheim from the east
Lustheim Palace from the west, with canal
Lustheim Palace from the east, with bosquet area