600 years old sinners’ hymn hidden in Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

Read more about Bosch’s symbolism: An enterprising blogger has recorded a piece of music hidden in Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, bringing to life a series of notes that originally appeared on the backside of one of Bosch’s sinners. Posting on her Tumblr, a self-described “huge nerd“ called Amelia explained that she and a friend had been examining a copy of Bosch’s famous triptych, which was painted around the year 1500. “[We] discovered, much to our amusement,“ she wrote. “[a] 600-years-old butt song from Hell.“ Once zoomed-in, the object of Amelia’s interest is clear: Bosch left sheet music “written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens of the rightmost panel of the painting“. Никто и представить не мог, что ноты в триптихе “Сад Земных Наслаждений“ датского художника Иеронима Босха, несут
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