How could you not be interested in a post with a headline like this: Hear the Song Written on a Sinner’s Buttock in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
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sadly this interpretation of the notation in this painting – while compelling – is based on incorrect assumptions...there's a fascinating (but arguably less primed for bite-sized virality) three-part article that goes into excruciating detail about the foibles of trying to decipher it, if indeed it is possible at all!
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