http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com A Mysterious Masterpiece Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:19:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 detail. Here's Tim's description of how he created the new images, which I ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/new-high-res-images-of-the-linder-gallery-now-live 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: [caption id="attachment_110" align="alignleft" width="246" caption="Three conversing figures, detail from Windsor drawing"][/caption] Gorman: I suppose a fundamental ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/rubens-and-the-linder-gallery-excerpt-from-a-mysterious-masterpiece 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 excerpt from an email I received about this a couple of days ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/mysterious-masterpiece/the-linder-gallery-to-be-featured-in-series-6-of-lost 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, the sun-centred Copernican system (prohibited by the Inquisition since 1616) and the ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/astronomy/others-see-it-yet-otherwise-the-cosmic-systems 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 of the period, featuring regularly in formal gardens.  For example, Robert Dudley's ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/obelisks