NEW HAVEN - A painter’s output over an entire career - especially a career as glittering as Johan Zoffany’s - can shed valuable light on a distant epoch. And who wouldn’t rather look at pictures like ...

ABOVE: Johan Zoffany, The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-77, oil on canvas, The Royal Collection ©2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Art Basel Miami Beach, this country’s most important contemporary art ...

Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was a German-born neoclassical painter. We want to tell you the story behind the most famous masterpiece The Tribuna of the Uffizi by Johan Zoffany.

The Royal Academy is on a roll. Right on the heels of its hit with Hockney, next month it will take a well-deserved, detailed look at one of the most intriguing artists ever to work in Britain, the ...

This sale includes four works on paper by Johan Zoffany, R.A (lots 162-164). The drawings once formed part of a larger group of fifty-three works that Zoffany assembled in the late 1790s and that, in ...

This sale includes three works on paper by Johan Zoffany, R.A (lots 162-164). The drawings once formed part of a larger group of fifty-three works that Zoffany assembled in the late 1790s and that, in ...

Can the German artist Johan Zoffany pack out an exhibition? This is the question on the mind of the Royal Academy this spring. Tate Britain clearly thought not, as they cancelled a scheduled show in ...

Those very respectable-looking artists in periwigs and full-bottomed coats often turn out to have led rather bold lives. When reading about the Groucho Club debaucheries of our own dear Young British ...

With his images of Georgian society, Johann Zoffany managed to walk a fine line between flattery and honesty – with highly satisfying results Laurence Olivier once showed some visitors around the ...

Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was a prominent artist in his lifetime, a German transplanted to England and a favorite of King George III, aristocrats who hired him for family portraits, his fellow members ...

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