Linder Gallery Interior

I love stories like this and mysteries that have yet to be fully solved. The painting itself reminds me of those 'find a clue' books I would read as a kid or the Neil Bantock books like 'Egyptian Jukebox" that require you to study the image for clues to solving a larger puzzle.

At the intersection of art, science, and mystery lies the Linder Gallery Interior, a 17th century painting depicting a gallery filled with scientific instruments, mathematical and cosmic diagrams, a variety of Flemish, Dutch, and Italian paintings, and a curious collection of other objects. Apparently, it represents the controversial ideas that came to a head in Galileo’s 1633 Inquisition Trial. Once owned by the Rothschilds and swiped by the Nazis, the painting is now in a private New York City collection. Fortunately for us, Michael John Gorman, curator of the Trinity College Dublin's Science Gallery, became obsessed with the artwork and created a Web site and book, titled "A Mysterious Masterpiece: The World of the Linder Gallery."



http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/05/the-linder-gallery-i.html