Detail, Interior, Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1480-1515, oil on panel, center 7’ 2½” x 6’ 4½”, wings, each 7’ 2½” x 3’ 2”, Museo del Prado, Madrid, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Late one night, a young woman named Amelia, a college student at Oklahoma Christian University, noticed that Hieronymus Bosch painted music on the rear end of a figure in the scene of Hell in his Garden of Earthly Delights, and so she decided to transcribe it. If you click here, you can watch Anderson Cooper’s fun Ridiculist story on Amelia and hear the 500-year-old butt music.
Click here to learn more about Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
