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New publication on gallery interiors

Just published, a special issue of Intellectual History Review, edited by Alexander Marr, on the topic of seventeenth-century gallery interiors:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g919679010

New high res images of the Linder Gallery now live

We are delighted to announce the publication of new ultra-high resolution images of the Linder Gallery, which have been shot by art photographer Tim Nighswander of www.imaging4art.com and allow the painting to be seen in even more minute … Read more »

Rubens and the Linder Gallery, excerpt from A Mysterious Masterpiece

Who are the  three conversing figures shown in the Windsor Drawing, almost certainly a preparatory drawing for the Linder Gallery? The excerpt below from  A Mysterious Masterpiece: The World of the Linder Gallery proposes a hypothesis:
Gorman: I suppose … Read more »

The Linder Gallery to be featured in Season 6 of LOST?

Will the Linder Gallery feature in the final season of the popular TV show LOST? A bizarre teaser video just released for the series features a very quick flash of the painting at around 47 seconds in:

Here’s an … Read more »

Others See it Yet Otherwise: The Cosmic Systems

At the front of the green octagonal table in the Linder Gallery, very prominently positioned in the painting, is a scrap of paper bearing three competing systems of the universe: the Ptolemaic earth-centred system at the top left, … Read more »