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Rembrandt’s Mystery Quest: the lost painting Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/24/2022
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Terrain:
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Rembrandt's Mystery Quest

The lost painting



 

The goal of this Quest is to find out more details about the fifth painting, the Allegory of Taste. All you know is that the painting below from Adriaen van Nieulandt contains a hidden clue. The artwork, which Van Nieulandt painted in 1633, is on display in the Amsterdam Museum nearby (https://hart.amsterdam/nl/collectie/object/amcollect/38025). 


 

To solve the Quest you need to do the following:

1) Use the walkthrough and the map from 1649 to find the four "anno" years (representing numbers A-P)

2) Use the numbers A-P in combination with the 1649 map to locate the focus (focal) point

3) At the focus point, look out for the white tower and gateway nearby, where the coordinates (Q-V) for the end cache are hidden 

4) Find out more details about the Allegory of Taste at the end cache

Good luck!


 

Map from 1649

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Sbphf cbvag: qba'g ybbx bhg sbe na npghny juvgr gbjre, ohg sbe n qrcvpgvba bs bar (abg gbb sne sebz n oevqtr). Gur pbbeqvangrf pna or sbhaq jvguva gur tngrjnl Raq pnpur: fgrry ornzf (lbh zvtug arrq n ybat fgvpx)

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)