tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post6351084721591691246..comments2023-06-13T08:29:39.914+00:00Comments on MAKING A MARK: Who painted this #68?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-19604565322839269382022-06-06T16:20:01.607+00:002022-06-06T16:20:01.607+00:00Artist Johann Zoffany
Title The Tribuna of the Uff...Artist Johann Zoffany<br />Title The Tribuna of the Uffizi<br />Date 1772 - 1778<br />Medium Oil Painting<br />Dimensions 123.5 X 155 cm<br />Location Royal Collection Windsor Castle<br />Johann Zoffany was a founder member of the Royal Academy and painter several pictures in this style in later life including one showing the members of the Royal Academy.<br />He was commissioned to paint the Uffizi by the Hanoverian Queen Charlotte. He arranged for a number of other artworks to be moved into this gallery before painting. The Wikipedia entry for the painting lists the artworks shown and shows the original works for comparison.<br /><br />He is also the only Royal Academician to be a cannibal following a shipwreck in the Andaman Islands.<br />Search I didn't know the artist but thought the subject might be the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. I tried googling paintings of the summer exhibition but this was a fruitless search. Google suggested searching for RA artists and this eventually led me to Johann Zoffany. Annoyingly the RA page for RA artists has Zoffany's picture of the Royal Academicians as a background but gives no information about it. Looking at that image led me to think it was by the same artist and so I was eventually able to track him down and so discovered that he also painted this one.John Woodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03540610703510610534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-89926208338985507652022-06-05T19:32:15.169+00:002022-06-05T19:32:15.169+00:00How vexing, I knew I recognised this, but other th...How vexing, I knew I recognised this, but other than thinking it was 18th Century had no idea of who painted it. I was convinced it was something to do with the Paris Salon or Salon de Refuses or the Royal Academy. Various searches of "painting of many paintings" or similar brought up similar concepts, but not the right one. Finally I tried "painting of Royal Academy" and it was the fourth image in the list, even though that isn't the title nor the subject!<br /><br />I can now claim to know that the painting is The Tribuna of the Uffizi, by Johan Zoffany, 1772-7<br />It forms part of The Royal Collection, housed in Windsor Castle and is painted in oil.<br /><br />The room depicted is an octagonal gallery in The Florence Gallery/Galleria degli Uffizi and the things shown within it were gathered from several locations so that Zoffany could illustrate the works in the Medici collection that he thought were most important.<br /><br />The figures inspecting the pieces are apparently recognisable connoisseurs, diplomats and visitors to Florence, including Zoffany himself.adequarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16083578516951842083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20645140.post-79333890030953502652022-06-05T17:25:08.230+00:002022-06-05T17:25:08.230+00:00Artist Johan Zoffany
Tribuna of the Uffizi
Date 17...Artist Johan Zoffany<br />Tribuna of the Uffizi<br />Date 1772 1778<br />Oil Painting on canvas/panel<br />46.6"x61"<br />Royal Collection, Windsor Castle <br />How I found this painting using escosia search engine<br />First search keywords painting exhibition academy<br />Second painting of an exposition royal academy 1800 and1700<br />Third artists that painted royal academy exhibitions 1800 is where I found the image <br /><br />Zoffany was commissioned in 1772 by the Queen to paint highlights of the Grand Duke of Tuscany's collection shown in the Tribuna of the Uffizi Palace link to full description.<br />https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizicarol edanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613981984625593843noreply@blogger.com