Comments on: Drawing and Painting? Art and Science? http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting A Mysterious Masterpiece Mon, 10 May 2010 13:36:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-73 Jennifer Drake-Brockman (Speake) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:23:19 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-73 This reading of the relationship between the old man and the girl doesn't really depend on my earlier comment about the possibility that the old man is blind (though if he were this would point to the notion of the blind seer who because of his physical disaability sees the more deeply through the eye of his mind). Rather than anything as specific as Science or Disegno, might he not stand for the power of the intellect without whose touch the visual arts sprawl slumbering in disarray? This reading of the relationship between the old man and the girl doesn’t really depend on my earlier comment about the possibility that the old man is blind (though if he were this would point to the notion of the blind seer who because of his physical disaability sees the more deeply through the eye of his mind). Rather than anything as specific as Science or Disegno, might he not stand for the power of the intellect without whose touch the visual arts sprawl slumbering in disarray?

]]> By: Lisa http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-15 Lisa Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:56:08 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-15 The table on the far right of The Gallery Interior with Personifications is tipped forward in the same wonky way as the Linder Gallery. I know it's not much of an incredible realization, but thought I'd point it out anyway as it caught my eye. - Just another person fascinated with this picture. The table on the far right of The Gallery Interior with Personifications is tipped forward in the same wonky way as the Linder Gallery. I know it’s not much of an incredible realization, but thought I’d point it out anyway as it caught my eye.

- Just another person fascinated with this picture.

]]> By: Alex http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-12 Alex Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:43:03 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-12 Yes - it was a Christie's sale. Here's a link to the lot (without a picture, but the printed catalogue has it): http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=3061478 Yes – it was a Christie’s sale. Here’s a link to the lot (without a picture, but the printed catalogue has it):

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=3061478

]]> By: michaeljohn http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-11 michaeljohn Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:20 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-11 Thanks for that Alex! Do you have the reference for the sale? Would be very interesting to see that painting as the reproductions we have are so mediocre. There's also that other lost painting showing the same room without the figures, don't suppose that one has turned up too? Thanks for that Alex! Do you have the reference for the sale? Would be very interesting to see that painting as the reproductions we have are so mediocre. There’s also that other lost painting showing the same room without the figures, don’t suppose that one has turned up too?

]]> By: Alex http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/allegory/drawing-and-painting/comment-page-1#comment-10 Alex Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:19:06 +0000 http://www.d1043818.blacknight.com/?p=204#comment-10 The Gallery Interior with Personifications of Pictura and Disegno is not, in fact, lost. It resurfaced on the art market a while ago, attributed to Hieronymus Francken II and Jan Brueghel, and is now in a private collection. The Gallery Interior with Personifications of Pictura and Disegno is not, in fact, lost. It resurfaced on the art market a while ago, attributed to Hieronymus Francken II and Jan Brueghel, and is now in a private collection.

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