Tribuna of the Uffizi
The Tribuna of the Uffizi is an octagonal exhibition hall in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de' Medici in 1584, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here.[1] This collection was ceded in 1737 by Grand Duchess Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici to the Tuscan government. By the 1770s, the Uffizi, and in particular the Tribuna, was the hub for Grand Tourists visiting Florence.
The octagonal plan of the room reflects the Renaissance association of architectural forms with the Christian numerological tradition, where eight is the number which draws near Heaven.[2]
Painting
[edit ]- Venus with a Satyr and Cupids by Annibale Carracci
- Raphael, Madonna della Sedia (Madonna of the Chair), c.1514
- Guido Reni, Charity, 1607
- Raphael, St John the Baptist
- Reni, Madonna
- Madonna della seggiola
- Correggio, Madonna and Child
- Justus Sustermans, Galileo
- Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch
- Franciabigio - Madonna of the Well
- Guido Reni, Cleopatra, 1635–40
- Holy Family, then attributed to Perugino
- Rubens, Justus Lipsius with his Pupils, c.1615
- Portrait of Leo X with two Cardinals by Raphael
- Tribute Money? by Carravagio?
- Rubens, Justus Lipsius with his Pupils, c.1615
- Raphael, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de’ Medici and Luigi de’ Rossi, 1518
- Niccolini-Cowper Madonna by Raphael
- Large central painting
- Holbein, Sir Richard Southwell, 1536
- Cristofano Allori, Miracle of St Julian
- Holy Family, attributed to Niccolò Soggi
- ummm Raphael, Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, 1508, then in Lord Cowper’s possession, having bought it from Zoffany, now National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
- Cupid and Psyche, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 1st or 2nd century BC
- The ‘Arrotino’ (Knife-Grinder), a Pergamene original of 2nd or 3rd century BC
- Dancing Faun, marble replica of a bronze of the circle of Praxiteles, 4th century BC
- The Infant Hercules Strangling the Serpents
- The Wrestlers, marble copy of a bronze Permamene original, 2nd or 3rd century BC
- South Indian crater
- Etruscan helmet
- Chimera - Etruscan art
- 8 Oil lamps
- Egyptian ptahmose, 18th dynasty
- Greek bronze torso
- Bust of Julius Caeser
- Roman silver shield
- Head of Antinous
- South Italian crater
- Etruscan jug
- Octagonal table with pietra dura top made for the Tribuna, designed by Jacopo Ligozzi and Bernardino Poccetti.
- Charles Loraine Smith (1751–1835)
- Richard Edgcumbe, later 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe (1764–1839)
- George, 3rd Earl Cowper (1738–89)
- Sir John Dick (1720–1804), British Consul at Leghorn
- Other Windsor, 6th Earl of Plymouth (1751–99)
- Johann Zoffany
- Mr Stevenson, companion to the Lord Lewisham
- George Legge, Lord Lewisham, later 3rd Earl of Dartmouth (1755–1810)
- unknown young man
- Valentine Knightley of Fawsley (1744–96)
- Pietro Bastianelli, the custodian of the gallery
- Mr Gordon
- Hon. Felton Hervey (1712–73)
- Thomas Patch (1725-82), Painter
- Sir John Taylor Bt., (d. 1786)
- Sir Horace Mann (1706–86), British Consul in Florence
- George Finch, 9th Earl of Winchilsea
- prob. Roger Wilbraham (1743-1829)
- Mr Watts
- Mr Doughty, travelling with Charles Loraine Smith
- Probably Thomas Wilbraham (b. 1751), brother of Roger
- The Medici Venus, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 2nd century BC
- James Bruce (1730–94), African explorer
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Johann Zoffany's famous painting of the Tribuna, commissioned by Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom in 1772, portrays the northeast section but varies the arrangement and brings in works not normally displayed in the room, such as Raphael’s Madonna della Sedia . Admiring the works of art are connoisseurs, diplomats and visitors to Florence, all identifiable. The Tribuna degli Uffizi was restored between 2009 and 2012.
References
[edit ]- ^ History of the Uffizi Gallery, uffizi.org, retrieved 3 July 2015
- ^ [1], uffizi.it, retrieved 8 January 2021
External links
[edit ]- Media related to Tribuna of the Uffizi at Wikimedia Commons
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