Art of the United Kingdom a preserved shark. The Tate gallery and eventually the Royal Academy also gave them exposure. The influence of Saatchi's generous and wide-ranging patronage was to become a matter of some controversy, as was that of Jay Jopling, the most influential London gallerist. The "Sensation" exhibition of works from the Saatchi Collection was controversial in both the UK and the US, though in different ways. At the Royal Academy press-generated controversy centred on "Myra", a very large image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey, but when the show travelled to New York City, opening at the Brooklyn Museum in
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder in London, England, called "Cosimo de' Medici as Pater Patriae".(link) The portrait is remarkable in part for the orientation of its subject. In 1997's "The Sculptures of Adrea del Verrocchio", Andrew Butterfield suggests that Botticelli may have "attempted to devise a new format for portraits" with this and his "Smeralda Bandinelli", by placing his subjects in the same "continuum" with their audience, directly engaging him. The identity of the young man in the portrait has never been agreed, but there has been considerable speculation. Writing in 1900, art historian George Noble Plunkett colorfully identified whom he believed the youth portrayed: