Another instalment in our series of puzzles; you’ll find the solution below the detail from the painting.
La Tempesta (The Tempest) is a puzzle in and of itself – one of the most mysterious and controversial works of Western painting. Thus far, the ingenuity of art experts has not led to an unambiguous determination of what this is a painting of. As early as 1530, after seeing the painting exhibited in the Palazzo Vendramin in Venice, the Italian literatus and art collector Marcantonio Michiel, in his work Notizia d’opere di disegno, gave the work