MONDAY:
The Scribbler
James Lincoln Warren
MONDAY:
Spirit of the Law
Janice Law
TUESDAY:
High-Heeled Gumshoe
Melodie Johnson Howe
WEDNESDAY:
Tune It Or Die!
Robert Lopresti
THURSDAY:
Femme Fatale
Deborah
Elliott-Upton
FRIDAY:
Bander- snatches
Steven Steinbock
SATURDAY:
Mississippi Mud
John M. Floyd
SATURDAY:
New York Minute
Angela Zeman
SUNDAY:
The A.D.D. Detective
Leigh Lundin
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Mystery Masterclass
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Surprise Witness
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SOLVING A PICTORIAL MYSTERY
Not all mysteries involve crimes. The painting below, called “The Linder Gallery”, attracted the attention of Michael John Gorman, curator of Trinity College’s Science Gallery in Dublin. He has written a book on it and created a website exploring it that you may peruse here.
He provides a cursory explanation of the various clues in the painting in the video posted below the painting.
What incredible detail, in those “paintings within the painting.” I loved this!
Wow, talk about a picture is worth a thousand words! Do I understand correctly that with all the details that are known about this painting,there is still no clue to who painted it?
That’s right, even though there’s a self-portrait of the artist in the painting. Based on Linder’s appearance with the artist in the detail, I suspect that Linder himself planned the picture and then commissioned the painter to execute his design, which may go a long way to explaining the artist’s anonymity.
This sort of thing is mother’s milk to writers like Umberto Eco, Dan Brown, and Arturo Perez-Reverte, who like to include actual historical cultural mysteries in their novels—although Eco and Perez-Reverte are obviously much more sophisticated than Brown.
This reminded me a lot of The Flanders Panel, by Perez-Reverte. A painting much like this one was at the center of the plot.