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Hear the music a 16th-century artist etched on a man’s butt

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There’s a lot going on in painter Hieronymus Bosch’s turn of the 16th century-era triptych, “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Its central and right panels show humans in the eponymous garden and hell respectively. It is, in fact, the hell panel where Bosch’s truly wicked sense of humor shines through in the various ingenious tortures he devised for sinners.

It was on one such torture victim that Amelia, a music student at Oklahoma Christian University, found several phrases of sheet music inscribed. On the man’s bottom, to be precise.
via cnet

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Image credit: oil on wood,”The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1490-1510, public domain

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