Flora and Zephyr

Flora and Zephyr
Flora and Zephyr

Artist:Jacopo Amigoni (Italian, Venice 1682–1752 Madrid)
Date:1730s
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:84 x 58 in. (213.4 x 147.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, Rudolph and Lentilhon G. von Fluegge Foundation Inc. Gift, 1985

The Venetians Sebastiano Ricci, Giovanni Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Amigoni all worked throughout Europe, achieving international reputations. A number of Amigoni's best pictures were painted for clients in England, where he worked between 1729 and 1739. This picture, which celebrates the coming of spring in the union of Zephyr with Flora, is one of a pair dating to his English period. The pendant, now in a private collection, shows Venus and Adonis.

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