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 »

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:

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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 »

A quick note on obelisks, as I see the one in the background of the painting is described as an ‘unlikely architectural feature’.
I don’t think this is quite right.  Obelisks were, in fact, rather common in northern architecture … Read more »

WESCHLER: Taking it one step further, I would also argue that this is the moment when art starts being art as opposed to being science. For all of your claims that the old man and the woman should … Read more »