Royal Academy of Arts Myra Hindley, a convicted murderer. The painting was vandalised while on display. In 2004, the Academy attracted media attention for a series of financial scandals and reports of a feud between Rosenthal and other senior staff. These problems resulted in the cancellation of what were expected to have been profitable exhibitions. In 2006, it attracted the press by erroneously placing only the support for a sculpture on display, and then justifying it being kept on display. The Academy also hosts an annual Royal Academy summer exhibition of new art, which is a well-known event on the London social calendar. 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: