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A scholarly group discusses around several tables, while a second group of people contemplate the paintings on the walls of the room. 
At the center two characters looking at a chart representing the destruction of works of art by Protestants in the late sixteenth century. 
A wooden table in the right part of the image shows albums, maritime maps, compasses and a terrestrial globe.One of the interpretations of the painting is that is serves a propagandistic purpose for the rulers of the Southern Netherlands.  The painter's intention is to highlight the protection enjoyed by culture and the arts in the Spanish Netherlands under its Spanish rulers, while this protection is not available in the rebellious Protestant United Provinces in the North.
Spanish United Provinces