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 as extensive discussion of Oddi’s activities in mathematics, the visual arts, architecture, and disegno.  It also examines Oddi’s relationship with Peter Linder, Daniele Crespi, Giovanni Battista Caravaggio, Federico Borromeo, and others.  For more details, see:

www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo9478167.html

There is no signature on the Linder Gallery, but on the red table on the right hand side of the painting is a small double-portrait. The portrait shows two men, a bearded man pointing at a drawing and the other, younger man looking at the drawing and painting. On close inspection of the drawing it can be seen that it represents the perspective scheme of the whole painting, so it is highly likely that the man on the right is the artist himself. Read more…