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Description: | Given Shakespeare's status as England's national playwright, it comes as a surprise that the first painter to depict one of his most celebrated scenes, Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches, was the Italian Franco Zuccarelli. Zuccarelli, a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, enjoyed fame in England during his lifetime and is known to have produced several versions of this subject, one of which was engraved by William Woollett in 1770. Unusually, he apparently painted Maidstone's version after this engraving. Although he was faithful to his source material in showing Macbeth and Banquo in traditional Scottish dress, his decision to set them in an epic landscape with storm-tossed trees rather than on the blasted heath described in the play reveals his roots in the Italian landscape tradition. | Subjects: | Macbeth) figure; landscape; literature (Shakespeare | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Zuccarelli, Franco (Italian painter, 1702-1788) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8622... | Go to resource |
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