{"id":21,"date":"2025-10-21T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:27:01","slug":"the-six-fingers-in-loves-oracle-by-albert-ritzberger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"The Six Fingers in &#8220;Love&#8217;s Oracle&#8221; by Albert Ritzberger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_Nottingham_Steve_Zenny-1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Albert Ritzberger<\/em>. 1853-1915.&nbsp;<em>Love&#8217;s Oracle<\/em>. Oil on canvas.&nbsp; (Nottingham City Museums and Galleries)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you know that the lady featured in &#8220;Love&#8217;s Oracle&#8221; by acclaimed German painter Albert Ritzberger has six fingers? This was kindly pointed out to me by a very articulate gallery staff member during my recent visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk\/museum-gallery\/\">Nottingham Castle Museum<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another special mention is that if you look close enough, well this is quite apparent after revelation &#8211; but yes, if you look close enough, all four faces in the painting are apparently the same &#8211; albeit with different expressions. <br><br>This is a special painting. Certainly one to check next time you&#8217;re in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk\/\">Nottingham<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the lady featured in &#8220;Love&#8217;s Oracle&#8221; by acclaimed German painter Albert Ritzberger has six fingers? This was kindly pointed out to me by a very articulate gallery staff member during my recent visit to Nottingham Castle Museum. Another special mention is that if you look close enough, well this is quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums-galleries","category-nottingham"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Loves_Oracle_Albert_Ritzberger_header_Nottingham_Museum_Steve_Zenny.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landmarkprior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}