http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com A Mysterious Masterpiece Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:30:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Can you help discover who painted the Linder Gallery? Much evidence has been uncovered about the origins of the Linder Gallery over the past fifteen years. We now know with reasonable certainty that the painting was commissioned by German merchant Peter Linder and that it involved significant intellectual input from Urbino ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/artist/announcing-the-linder-gallery-prize Given the multiple styles presented in the paintings on the walls within the Linder Gallery, it seems possible that more than one hand was involved in its creation. The series of four paintings called the “Senses” in the Prado Museum in Madrid, for example, are well known collaborations between ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/artist/who-painted-the-linder-gallery-interior-considerations-by-ron-cordover Alexander Marr's new book on Mutio Oddi, Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy has been published by the University of Chicago Press.  The first full account of Oddi's like and work, it includes a chapter on the Linder Gallery Interior as well ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/art_science/new-book-on-mutio-oddi-published Amy Ione has published a review of A Mysterious Masterpiece in Leonardo. Here's an excerpt: "A Mysterious Masterpiece. The World of the Linder Gallery introduces the Linder Gallery painting to a broad audience through an in situ conversation of six specialists and generalists who discuss the work in the owner’s ... http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/uncategorized/review-of-a-mysterious-masterpiece-in-leonardo 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 http://www.mysteriousmasterpiece.com/paintings/new-publication-on-gallery-interiors