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🗓️ 11 February 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Many fairy tales begin with once upon a time and end with happily ever after. |
0:13.6 | Well, we definitely won't be hearing either of those phrases in our following story. |
0:18.9 | It was taped live in New York City on December 10th, 2017, |
0:22.4 | as part of our show, The Master's Hand. |
0:28.9 | One of the strangest masterpieces in all of art history, |
0:35.9 | the Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch continues to dazzle and |
0:41.9 | astonish and baffle the viewer. Painted between the years of 1490 and 1510, the painting is actually |
0:50.0 | a triptych, three panels depicting scenes both heavenly and hellish. The garish surrealism on display |
0:59.3 | in its various scenes is really centuries ahead of its time. A young American student named |
1:06.6 | Amelia Hamrick picked up on a small detail in the panel depicting hell. She found musical notation |
1:15.2 | on the buttocks of a figure of a man being crushed by a harp in the scene of hell. She decided |
1:23.6 | to transcribe the notation and record the brief bit of music. In 2014, she shared a recording |
1:31.3 | of her notation. She simply titled, The 600-year-old butt song from hell. Of course it went viral |
1:41.8 | and made her an internet sensation. |
1:45.1 | Here is that brief bit of mysterious music found |
1:49.1 | on the backside of a man burning in the fires of hell. |
1:53.1 | Music quite the asterepiece, yeah? |
2:12.6 | Yeah? |
2:13.6 | That is what it says here. |
2:20.6 | The artist wishing to give more than just figurative life to his work or her work |
2:27.6 | can be found in the ancient story of Pygmalion and his sculpture of Galatea. |
2:33.9 | Pygmalion loved his sculpture of Galatea. Pygmalion loved his creation so much |
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