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 mathematician Mutio Oddi. It appears to have been painted …
Who painted the Linder Gallery Interior? Considerations by Ron Cordover
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 Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. While some comments …
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:
When art becomes art – Excerpt from A Mysterious Masterpiece
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 be read principally iconographically — that they represent this or they represent that and so forth — there are times when a …
Photos of conversation about the Linder Gallery
Tamara Schlesinger’s photographs of the conversation about the Linder Gallery, 12 December 2008, New York.