Juno Receives the Head of Argus

 

Title: Juno Receives the Head of Argus

ArtistJacopo Amigoni (1682–1752) 

Work Date1730

Materials: Oil on canvas

StyleRococo

Sizeh156xw120inch

Collection:  Moor Park, Rickmansworth

 

 

Appreciation

 

Juno, the wife of Zeus, asked the hundred-eyed giant Argus to watch over Io, whom she rightly suspected of being her husband’s lover. Argus was murdered at Zeus’ command by Mercury. Juno set the giant’s eyes into the tail of her peacock in his memory. The picture here shows Juno receiving the head of Argus.

 

The soft, sensual style, light colours and graceful lines of the painting are typically Rococo.

 

 

About Artist

 

Jacopo Amigoni (1682–1752) was a fashionable and successful painter of portraits and of historical scenes. He painted both mythological and religious scenes;

 

Like many Rococo artists, he worked all over Europe, particularly England. It was probably he who, upon returning to Venice after a highly profitable trip to London, persuaded Canaletto to travel to England in 1746. In England he painted decorations for Covent Garden and Moor Park.

 

Thereafter he lived comfortably by painting elegant portrait of the royal family and nobility.

 

 

欣賞

 

這是一個希臘神話故事,宙斯(羅馬神話中的朱庇特),這是一個風流成性眾神之王,他有七個妻子,還到處留情。

 

宙斯這次又愛上了女祭司伊奧,宙斯的妻子天后朱諾,又嫉妒又憤恨,用神力把伊奧變成一隻小母牛,交給百眼巨人阿爾古斯監視。

 

宙斯被觸怒,派赫爾墨斯殺死百眼巨人。

 

朱諾又讓牛虻緊追着伊奧猛叮,伊奧痛苦不堪,最後逃到埃及。宙斯使她恢復人形,並化作雲霧與伊奧相會。

這幅畫表現的是朱諾接到宙斯送來阿爾古斯的頭顱的場面。她把巨人的一百隻眼睛,安放在她的孔雀的尾巴里,以保存他的記憶。

 

洛可可式的柔和,感性,唯美的風格,明亮的光線,淡雅,諧和的色彩,精緻的線條和構圖。

 

 

 

 

關於藝術家

 

雅克布 阿米貢尼出生在意大利的威尼斯。像許多洛可可藝術家,他在歐洲各個國家作畫,特別是在英國有很好的發展。他為英國的高芬花園的劇院和摩爾公園的莊園畫了裝飾畫。這幅畫現在收藏在摩爾公園的莊園裡。。

 

他擅長畫神話和宗教題材,他為皇室,宮廷的貴族們畫像,他的畫掛在貴族們的客廳裡,為他帶來很高的利潤。

 

畫名:《朱諾收到阿爾古斯的頭》

畫家:雅克布 阿米貢尼

風格:洛可可

材料:油畫,畫布

日期:1730

尺寸:h156xw120英寸

收藏:英國克里曼沃斯的穆爾公園莊園Moor Park, Rickmansworth