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For all your Ligozzi artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity (COA) in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

Getting a Ligozzi Certificate of Authenticity (COA) is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Ligozzi painting or drawing.

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We have been authenticating Ligozzi and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Ligozzi experts and Ligozzi certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Ligozzi artworks.

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We are available to examine your Ligozzi painting or drawing anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Ligozzi paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Ligozzi collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Jacopo Ligozzi art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Jacopo Ligozzi or we will sell it for you.

Jacopo Ligozzi was an Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist of the late Renaissance and early Mannerist styles. Born in Verona, he was the son of the artist Giovanni Ermanno Ligozzi, and part of a large family of painters and artisans. After a time in the Hapsburg court in Vienna where he displayed drawings of animal and botanical specimens, he was invited to come to Florence, receiving the patronage of the Medici as one of the court artists. Upon the death of Giorgio Vasari in 1574, he became head of the Accademia del Disegno (now the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze), the officially patronized guild of artists, which was often called to advise on diverse projects. He served Francesco I, Ferdinando I, Cosimo II and Ferdinando II, Grand Dukes of Tuscany. He worked on some projects with Bernardino Poccetti. Late in life, he was named director of the grand-ducal Galleria dei Lavori, a workshop providing designs for artworks made mainly for export: embroidered textiles and for the newly popular medium of pietre dure, mosaics of semiprecious stones and colored marbles.

Ligozzi completed many pen and wash drawings on religious or mythologic images or for heraldic images. He is known best for his depictions of fauna and flora; Ligozzi in this part of his work reflects the nascent scientific pursuits of the Medici, particularly with his botanical work. His botanically-correct depictions of plants can even include exquisitely-observed root systems. Ligozzi was commissioned to create some of the depictions found in the encyclopedic visual catalogue of the plant collections of Bolognese Ulisse Aldrovandi (kept in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Uffizi Gallery). He is an Audubon of late Renaissance Florence. He is credited with bringing the lusher color-palate of Verona to Florence.

He was influential among some subsequent Florentines including Bartolomeo Bimbi, among direct pupils are Donato Mascagni, known as Frate Arsenio. He died in Florence. Still wondering about an Italian painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Jacopo Ligozzi.