The Tribuna of the Uffizi

Artwork: The Tribuna of the Uffizi (whole and details)

Artist: Johan Joseph Zoffany (13 March 1733-11 November 1810)

Created: between (1772-80)

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 123.5 × 155.0 cm

Location: The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, United Kingdom

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“This artist has lavished immense care on the architectural features of the room: the patterned floor, the rich cornice and the decorated cupola. The neat, careful handling of paint and fresh colouring extends throughout the picture. Zoffany has painstakingly assembled paintings, sculptures and bronzes, and grouped figures around them. In fact, the artist has cheated because he has not represented the Tribuna exactly as it was in 1772, but has introduced works of art form other parts of the Medici collection, such as the Palazzo Pitti, so that the visual effect is richer; there is also a certain licence in the scattering of objects on the floor. Zoffany’s skill lies not just in the organisation of such a crowded composition, but also in the concern for texture. This is not limited to the distinction he makes between garments and the surfaces of objects such as marble, frames and fabrics, but extends to the various stylistics idioms of the paintings on the wall. Here are famous works by Rubens, Correggio, Titian, Guido Reni, Guercino, Pietro da Cortona, Hans Holbein the Younger, Annibale Carracci, and above all five works by Raphael – the apogee of art for the eighteenth-century connoisseur. In fact, the painting is really a homage to Raphael.”(text from The Royal Collection)

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