Ottavio Amigoni Biography
Ottavio Amigoni (Brescia, 16 October 1606 – Brescia, 28 October 1661) was an Italian painter. He was a pupil of the painter A. Gandino, but instead of following the Palmesque fashion he took inspiration from Veronese, reducing the crowded compositions to rigid symmetries, the brightness of the color to effects of dry lack of thickness, accentuated within the strongly marked outline. He worked in Brescia and the surrounding area: in 1633 he signed and dated the altarpiece with the Madonna and Child with saints in the parish church of Cellatica (Brescia), in 1634 the frescoes with Facts from the life of Saint Albert in the choir of the Carmine church, in 1642 the altarpiece with Saint Eufemia and Saint Francis adoring the Virgin and Child in the parish church of Vello (Brescia); in 1643 the Last Supper of Quinzano (Varese), in 1647 the Immaculate Conception of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Brescia, and about the same time must be the Presentation of Mary in the Temple of the same church; the Last Supper of Siviano (Lake Iseo) from 1651. He also painted, in Brescia, the doors of the organ of Sant'Agata, two fake monochrome statues on the internal facade of San Faustino Maggiore and three panels with stories of Sant'Antorno in the chapel to the left of the presbytery in the church of San Francesco; in Capriolo a Saint Anthony in the small church of the Disciplina and in the parish church of Marone a Madonna with Child, two saints and two angels. He died in Brescia in 166.
