Jacopo Amigoni
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Jacopo Amigoni, 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
Self-portrait, 1730–1735
Juno Receiving the Head of Argos (1730–32) Oil on canvas, 108 × 72 cm. Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
Bacchus and Ariadne, 1740
Venus and Adonis
Sigismund Streit
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Sigismund Streit was a Kingdom of Prussia merchant and art patron of the 18th century in Venice.
Jacopo Amigoni
…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 House of Savoy and for various buildings of the city. In 1747, he left Italy for Madrid, encouraged by Farinelli, who held a court appointment…
Streit by Jacopo Amigoni, 1739