13 Van Gogh’s Paintings Painstakingly Brought to Life with 3D Animation & Visual Mapping

in Animation, Art | February 25th, 2016

Ear­li­er this month, we told you how you can down­load hun­dreds of Van Gogh paint­ings in high res­o­lu­tion, cour­tesy of the Van Gogh Muse­um in Ams­ter­dam. Now, the ques­tion is, what will you do with those images? You’re a lit­tle tech savvy? Maybe make your­self a nice screen­saver. You’ve got some more seri­ous tech chops? Even bet­ter. You can put those Van Gogh images in motion. Last year, Mac Cauley ani­mat­ed Van Gogh’s 1888 paint­ing, “The Night Cafe,” using Ocu­lus vir­tu­al real­i­ty Soft­ware. It’s a sight to behold. And above, we have 3D ani­ma­tions of thir­teen Van Gogh paint­ings, all cre­at­ed by Luca Agnani, an Ital­ian artist who spe­cial­izes in visu­al map­ping and design pro­jec­tions. 

Agnani’s ani­ma­tions are painstak­ing and pre­cise. Explain­ing the pre­ci­sion of his method, he told the The Cre­ators Project, “To cal­cu­late the exact shad­ows, I tried to under­stand the posi­tion of the sun rel­a­tive to Arles at dif­fer­ent times of the day.” And he added: “If the video [above] was pro­ject­ed over [Van Gogh’s] paint­ings, my inter­pre­ta­tions would super­im­pose per­fect­ly, like a map­ping of a frame­work.” To cre­ate sim­i­lar ani­ma­tions you will want to get com­fort­able using soft­ware pack­ages like Pre­miere and 3D Stu­dio Max.

The Van Gogh paint­ings appear­ing in the video are as fol­lows:

1. Fish­ing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries
2. Lan­glois Bridge at Arles, The
3. Farm­house in Provence
4. White House at Night, The
5. Still Life
6. Evening The Watch (after Mil­let)
7. View of Saintes-Maries
8. Bed­room
9. Fac­to­ries at Asnieres Seen
10. White House at Night, The
11. Restau­rant
12. First Steps (after Mil­let)
13. Self-Por­trait

h/t Kim L.

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Relat­ed Con­tent

Watch as Van Gogh’s Famous Self-Por­trait Morphs Into a Pho­to­graph

Van Gogh’s 1888 Paint­ing, “The Night Cafe,” Ani­mat­ed with Ocu­lus Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty Soft­ware

The Unex­pect­ed Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Star­ry Night”

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Take a Multimedia Tour of the Buttock Song in Hieronymus Bosch’s Painting The Garden of Earthly Delights

in Art, Music | February 25th, 2016

buttock song2

“Not a bum note in sight!” goes the head­line, in all the Dai­ly Mail’s trade­mark sub­tle­ty. Mark Prig­g’s straight-to-the-point arti­cle tells us of “a musi­cal score dis­creet­ly writ­ten on the butt of a fig­ure in Gar­den Of Earth­ly Delights, the famous paint­ing by Hierony­mus Bosch,” which, thanks to the labor of love of Okla­homa Chris­t­ian Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent Amelia Ham­rick, “has become an online hit.” The title of her ren­di­tion: “The 600-Year-Old Butt Song from Hell.”

Going a bit upmar­ket to Sean Michaels in the Guardian, we find the details that, “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.” You can read about it on her viral post, which describes her project of tran­scrib­ing Bosch’s pos­te­ri­or-writ­ten score “into mod­ern nota­tion, assum­ing the sec­ond line of the staff is C, as is com­mon for chants of this era.”

You can actu­al­ly hear a ren­di­tion of this hero­ical­ly recov­ered com­po­si­tion by click­ing on the video above. Some fine soul — pre­sum­ably a fel­low named Jim Spalink — took Ham­rick­’s nota­tion and turned it into music. When you’re done, you can then give the But­tock song a close visu­al inves­ti­ga­tion by div­ing into the vir­tu­al tour of The Gar­den of Earth­ly Delights, fea­tured here ear­li­er this month. Look for the 13th stop on the guid­ed tour, and you can see the musi­cal nota­tion in incred­i­bly fine detail–finer detail than you could have ever hoped or imag­ined.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Take a Vir­tu­al Tour of Hierony­mus Bosch’s Bewil­der­ing Mas­ter­piece The Gar­den of Earth­ly Delights

What Ancient Greek Music Sound­ed Like: Hear a Recon­struc­tion That is ‘100% Accu­rate’

Lis­ten to the Old­est Song in the World: A Sumer­ian Hymn Writ­ten 3,400 Years Ago

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and style. He’s at work on a book about Los Ange­les, A Los Ange­les Primer, the video series The City in Cin­e­ma, the crowd­fund­ed jour­nal­ism project Where Is the City of the Future?, and the Los Ange­les Review of Books’ Korea Blog. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.

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Wes Anderson Movie Sets Recreated in Cute, Miniature Dioramas

in Art, Film | February 25th, 2016

Wes Anderson’s per­fec­tion­ist films often look like doll­hous­es enlarged to fit in human actors, but Barcelona-based illus­tra­tor Mar Cerdà has one-upped the direc­tor and cre­at­ed her own minia­ture dio­ra­mas repli­cat­ing sets from sev­er­al of his films.

This is metic­u­lous work done in water­col­or, then pre­cise­ly cut and com­bined into scenes both two- and three-dimen­sion­al. For any­one who has tried to cut some­thing very small and fid­dly with an x‑acto knife, you’ll appre­ci­ate her skill. (The artist in me is com­plete jel­ly, as they say.) So far she has recre­at­ed the concierge desk from The Grand Budapest Hotel, the berth from The Dar­jeel­ing Lim­it­ed, and the bath­room from The Roy­al Tenen­baums, com­plete with Mar­got and her mom Ethe­line. (If you look deep­er, you will also find this mini Mar­got box.)

Her love of Ander­son is no sur­prise if you look at the oth­er work in her port­fo­lio. Her book Famil­iari is a series of fig­ures that can be flipped to make “80,000 dif­fer­ent fam­i­lies,” all of which give off the Tenen­baum group shot vibe. And her lov­ing­ly detailed recre­ation of an entry in a Menor­ca-locat­ed house shares a love of cute and col­or­ful with the director’s art direc­tion.

Dio­ra­mas aside, by the way, her water­col­or tech­nique as well as her fig­u­ra­tive work is on point.

Cur­rent­ly, Cerdà is work­ing on a Star Wars-themed dio­ra­ma because, hey why not? Most every­body in the world loves that uni­verse. And she also just fin­ished a recre­ation of a scene from Zoolan­der. Fol­low her on Insta­gram, because there’s sure to be more to come.

via AV Club

Relat­ed Con­tent:

The Per­fect Sym­me­try of Wes Anderson’s Movies

Books in the Films of Wes Ander­son: A Super­cut for Bib­lio­philes

What’s the Big Deal About Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel? Matt Zoller Seitz’s Video Essay Explains

Ted Mills is a free­lance writer on the arts who cur­rent­ly hosts the FunkZone Pod­cast. You can also fol­low him on Twit­ter at @tedmills, read his oth­er arts writ­ing at tedmills.com and/or watch his films here.

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Download 2,000 Magnificent Turn-of-the-Century Art Posters, Courtesy of the New York Public Library

in Art, Books, Magazines | February 23rd, 2016

nypl art poster

A scroll through any col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary graph­ic design port­fo­lios makes for a dizzy­ing tour of the seem­ing­ly unlim­it­ed range of col­ors, tex­tures, fonts, etc. avail­able to the mod­ern com­mer­cial artist. From the most col­or­ful pop art to the sub­tlest fine art, it seems that any and every vision can be real­ized on the page or screen thanks to dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy. Turn the dial back over a hun­dred years, and the posters, mag­a­zine cov­ers, and adver­tise­ments can seem prim­i­tive by ini­tial com­par­i­son, some­what washed out and ane­mic, and cer­tain­ly noth­ing like the can­dy-col­ored visu­al feast that meets our eyes on lap­top and smart­phone screens these days.

Plansman

But look clos­er at the design of a cen­tu­ry past, and you’ll find, I think, just as much vari­ety, skill, and imagination—if not near­ly so much col­or and slickness—as is on dis­play today. And though soft­ware enables design­ers to cre­ate images and sur­faces of which their pre­de­ces­sors could only dream, those hand-illus­trat­ed graph­ics of the past hold a strik­ing­ly sim­ple allure that still com­mands our attention—drawing from art nou­veau, impres­sion­ism, pre-Raphaelite, and oth­er fine art forms and incor­po­rat­ing mod­ernist lines and con­trasts.

nypl art posters

Any graph­ic design­er work­ing today can learn from the adver­tis­ing posters you see here, and—thanks to the New York Pub­lic Library’s Turn of the Cen­tu­ry Posters col­lec­tion—can view and down­load hun­dreds more in high res­o­lu­tion, over 2000 more.

The Female Rebellion

“The advent of the art poster in Amer­i­ca,” writes NYPL, “is trace­able to the pub­li­ca­tion of Edward Pen­field­’s poster adver­tis­ing the March 1893 issue of Harper’s. [See a col­lec­tion of his Harper’s posters here.] Unlike ear­li­er adver­tis­ing posters, Pen­field­’s work pre­sent­ed an implied graph­ic nar­ra­tive to which text was sec­ondary. In this way, and sub­se­quent­ly, in the hands of major artists such as Pen­field, Will Bradley and Ethel Reed, the poster moved from the realm of com­mer­cial art to an ele­vat­ed, artis­tic posi­tion.” These posters quick­ly became col­lec­tor’s items, and “became more desir­able than the pub­li­ca­tion they were adver­tis­ing.”

Ancestors

As such, the turn-of-the-cen­tu­ry art poster pushed the pub­lish­ing indus­try toward graph­i­cal­ly illus­trat­ed-mag­a­zine cov­ers and book jack­ets. The increas­ing­ly styl­ish, beau­ti­ful­ly-exe­cut­ed posters on dis­play in the NYPL archive show us not only the devel­op­ment of mod­ern com­mer­cial design as adver­tis­ing, but also its devel­op­ment as an art form. Though we may have need­ed Andy Warhol and his con­tem­po­raries to remind us that com­mer­cial art can just as well be fine art, a look through this stun­ning gallery of posters shows us that pop­u­lar graph­ics and fine art often trad­ed places long before the pop art rev­o­lu­tion.

The Century

Relat­ed Con­tent:

100,000+ Won­der­ful Pieces of The­ater Ephemera Dig­i­tized by The New York Pub­lic Library

Food­ie Alert: New York Pub­lic Library Presents an Archive of 17,000 Restau­rant Menus (1851–2008)

The New York Pub­lic Library Lets You Down­load 180,000 Images in High Res­o­lu­tion: His­toric Pho­tographs, Maps, Let­ters & More

Josh Jones is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC. Fol­low him at @jdmagness

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Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Launches Free Course on Looking at Photographs as Art

in Art, MOOCs, Museums, Photography | February 15th, 2016

Not con­tent with ban­ning self­ie sticks, the Muse­um of Mod­ern Art (MoMA) is bring­ing visu­al lit­er­a­cy to the mass­es via its first for­ay into the world of MOOCs (aka “mas­sive open online cours­es”).

Cura­tor Sarah Meis­ter will be draw­ing on MoMA’s expan­sive pho­tog­ra­phy col­lec­tion for the free 6‑session, self-paced See­ing Through Pho­tographs class on Cours­era.

You won’t learn how to make duck lips in a mir­ror, but by the course’s end, you should be able to cast a crit­i­cal eye, with a new appre­ci­a­tion for the “diverse ideas, approach­es, and tech­nolo­gies” that inform a pho­tograph’s mak­ing.

The first week’s assign­ments include a video inter­view with Mar­vin Heifer­man, author of Pho­tog­ra­phy Changes Every­thing, below. Yes, there will be a quiz.

Expect assigned read­ings from John Szarkowski’s Intro­duc­tion to The Photographer’s Eye, and MoMA’s Chief Cura­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy, Quentin Bajac.

There’s a lot of ground to cov­er, obvi­ous­ly. Meis­ter has lined up quite a hit parade: Ansel Adams, NASA’s moon pho­tog­ra­phy, Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Moth­er,” Susan Meise­las’ “Car­ni­val Strip­pers” project, Cindy Sherman’s “Unti­tled Film Stills,” and Nicholas Nixon’s 40-year doc­u­men­ta­tion of the Brown sis­ters.

Prove your knowl­edge at the end of the six weeks with a final 30-minute project in which you’ll select an image that would be a good addi­tion to one of the course’s themes, below:

See­ing Through Pho­tographs

One Sub­ject, Many Per­spec­tives

Doc­u­men­tary Pho­tog­ra­phy

Pic­tures of Peo­ple

Con­struct­ing Nar­ra­tives and Chal­leng­ing His­to­ries

Ocean of Images: Pho­tog­ra­phy and Con­tem­po­rary Cul­ture

Enroll in this fas­ci­nat­ing free course here.

via Petapix­el

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Take a Free Online Course on Mak­ing Ani­ma­tions from Pixar & Khan Acad­e­my

Take a Free Online Course on Mak­ing Com­ic Books, Com­pli­ments of the Cal­i­for­nia Col­lege of the Arts

MOOCs from Great Uni­ver­si­ties (Many With Cer­tifi­cates)

Ayun Hal­l­i­day is an author, illus­tra­tor, and Chief Pri­ma­tol­o­gist of the East Vil­lage Inky zine. Fol­low her @AyunHalliday

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Download Hundreds of 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints by Masters of the Tradition

in Art | February 15th, 2016

Goyu No. 35

We recent­ly fea­tured hun­dreds of Van Gogh’s paint­ings, sketch­es, and let­ters down­load­able from Ams­ter­dam’s Van Gogh Muse­um. But despite its name, that respect­ed insti­tu­tion has­n’t devot­ed itself entire­ly to the work of the 19th-cen­tu­ry post-impres­sion­ist painter; they’ve also got a seri­ous stock of art from rough­ly the same peri­od but the oth­er side of the world in the form of Japan­ese wood­block prints. And like their Van Gogh mate­ri­als, they’ve made them avail­able to all of us in high res­o­lu­tion files, free for the down­load­ing in their online col­lec­tions.

Yokkaichi

All of us will rec­og­nize this style of Japan­ese art, but not all of us will know its Japan­ese name: ukiyo‑e, or “pic­tures of the float­ing world” — that is, the world of scenic trav­els through strik­ing land­scapes as well as urban beau­ties, sports­men, actors, and ladies of the night that bloomed from the 17th to the 19th cen­turies.

Not only did that heady peri­od of Japan­ese his­to­ry pro­vide these wood­block prints their sub­jects, it also pro­vid­ed the tech­nol­o­gy used to pro­duce them with increas­ing col­or and com­plex­i­ty as well as a mer­chant-class audi­ence to pur­chase them as home decor.

On the Riverbank

The Van Gogh Muse­um’s selec­tions come from a time of dom­i­nance by a few still-acknowl­edged ukiyo‑e mas­ters whose names you’ll know, like Kat­sushi­ka Hoku­sai and Uta­gawa (also known as Ando) Hiroshige, the lat­ter of whose work the online col­lec­tion has 83 pieces cur­rent­ly down­load­able. One of them, Goyu from one series of illus­tra­tions of notable places and Yokkaichi: The Mie­gawa Riv­er and Nago Bay from anoth­er, appear at the top and sec­ond from the top. But the Van Gogh Muse­um has amassed even more work by Uta­gawa Kunisa­da, the most pro­lif­ic and best­selling ukiyo‑e artist of the day, whose On the River­bank, one sheet of a trip­tych, we have just above.

Crossing the Sumidawaga River

You can down­load any of the more than 500 pieces in the online col­lec­tion by these and dozens of oth­er ukiyo‑e artists (such as Toy­ohara Kunichi­ka, whose Illus­tra­tion of Cross­ing the Sum­i­da Riv­er in the Evening appears just above) by click­ing on the down arrow that appears in the low­er right when you view an indi­vid­ual image. Hav­ing just returned from a trip to Japan a cou­ple weeks ago, I can report that the coun­try has changed dra­mat­i­cal­ly and in many ways from the one Hoku­sai, Hiroshige, Kunisa­da and their col­leagues cap­tured, but still, some durable part of their aes­thet­ic essence remains. Besides, these prints must even at the time have had some­thing of the ele­giac about them, itself an endur­ing qual­i­ty of Japan­ese art. “Even in Kyoto,” as the poet Mat­suo Masho wrote two cen­turies before that, “I long for Kyoto.”

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Hayao Miyazaki’s Beloved Char­ac­ters Reimag­ined in the Style of 19th-Cen­tu­ry Wood­block Prints

A Won­der­ful­ly Illus­trat­ed 1925 Japan­ese Edi­tion of Aesop’s Fables by Leg­endary Children’s Book Illus­tra­tor Takeo Takei

Down­load Hun­dreds of Van Gogh Paint­ings, Sketch­es & Let­ters in High Res­o­lu­tion

Based in Seoul, Col­in Mar­shall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and style. He’s at work on a book about Los Ange­les, A Los Ange­les Primer, the video series The City in Cin­e­ma, the crowd­fund­ed jour­nal­ism project Where Is the City of the Future?, and the Los Ange­les Review of Books’ Korea Blog. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.

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Download Hundreds of Van Gogh Paintings, Sketches & Letters in High Resolution

in Art | February 10th, 2016

VG Self Portrait 1887

As a cal­low young art stu­dent in high school, I dear­ly want­ed, and tried, to see the world with the same furi­ous inten­si­ty as Vin­cent van Gogh, and to cap­ture that kind of vision on paper and can­vas. I lat­er real­ized with cha­grin as I stood in a line sev­er­al blocks long for a wild­ly pop­u­lar exhib­it (Van Gogh’s Van Goghs at the Nation­al Gallery of Art) that I was but one of mil­lions who want­ed to see the world through Van Gogh’s eyes.

After wait­ing for what seemed like for­ev­er, not only could I bare­ly get a glimpse of any of the paint­ings through the scrum of tourists and gawk­ers, but I felt—in my pro­tec­tive bub­ble of Van Gogh veneration—that these peo­ple couldn’t pos­si­bly get Van Gogh the way I got Van Gogh.

VG Portrait of Theo

Well, every­body has their own ver­sion of Van Gogh, per­haps, but one I’ve out­grown is the mad, mag­i­cal genius whose men­tal ill­ness act­ed as a trag­ic but nec­es­sary con­di­tion for his tran­scen­dent­ly pas­sion­ate work. Maybe it’s age and some famil­iar­i­ty with life’s hard­ship, but I no longer roman­ti­cize Van Gogh’s suf­fer­ing. And per­haps a more real­is­tic view of what was like­ly debil­i­tat­ing bipo­lar dis­or­der has giv­en me an even greater appre­ci­a­tion for his accom­plish­ments. Dur­ing the brief 10-year peri­od that Van Gogh pur­sued his art, he was as ded­i­cat­ed as it’s pos­si­ble to be—producing near­ly 900 can­vas­es and over 1,100 works on paper, and alter­ing the way we see the world, all while expe­ri­enc­ing severe­ly crip­pling bouts of depres­sion, anx­i­ety, and self doubt; hav­ing his neigh­bors ostra­cize and evict him from his home; and spend­ing most of his final year in an insti­tu­tion.

VG Head of a Skeleton

Sad­ly, he felt him­self a medi­oc­rity at best, a fail­ure at worst. As the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art writes, “in 1890,” the final year of his life, “he mod­est­ly assessed his artis­tic lega­cy as of ‘very sec­ondary’ impor­tance.” (This despite the appre­ci­a­tion he’d begun to receive from sev­er­al gallery show­ings.) The posthu­mous recep­tion of his work—ubiquitously repro­duced and admired by count­less throngs in exhib­it after exhibit—can do noth­ing now to lift his spir­its, but sure­ly vin­di­cates his prodi­gious effort. Van Gogh’s fame has had the unfor­tu­nate side effect of crowd­ing out many stu­dents of his art from gallery exhi­bi­tions. Yet this dif­fi­cul­ty need not now pre­vent them from sur­vey­ing and see­ing up close his huge body of work in dig­i­tal archives like that of the Van Gogh Muse­um in Ams­ter­dam, the largest Van Gogh col­lec­tion in the world.

VG Letter to Theo with Willow

By enter­ing the col­lec­tion, you can see, for exam­ple, Self Por­trait with Straw Hat, at the top, from 1887, or the strik­ing­ly sim­i­lar por­trait of his broth­er and staunch sup­port­er Theo from the same year, just below it. Fur­ther down is the dark­ly humor­ous Head of a Skele­ton With a Burn­ing Cig­a­rette from 1886, and just above, see an 1882 let­ter to Theo, with a beau­ti­ful sketch of a Pol­lard Wil­low, an image he com­mit­ted to can­vas that year. Just below, see an inter­est­ing exam­ple of the very begin­nings of Van Gogh’s posthu­mous canonization—an 1891 cov­er sketch and short trib­ute arti­cle in the French satir­i­cal mag­a­zine Les hommes D’Aujourd’hui.

VG Les Hommes cover

You can search or browse the col­lec­tion, and down­load and view these images, and many hun­dreds more paint­ings, sketch­es, draw­ings, let­ters, and much more, in res­o­lu­tion high enough to zoom in to every indi­vid­ual brush­stroke and ink pen flour­ish. Miss­ing from the expe­ri­ence is the three-dimen­sion­al­i­ty of Van Gogh’s heav­i­ly tex­tur­al paint­ing, but nowhere else will you have this lev­el of acces­si­bil­i­ty to so much of his work and life.

VG Head of a Woman

Note: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this post appeared on our site in 2016.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Vin­cent Van Gogh’s “The Star­ry Night”: Why It’s a Great Paint­ing in 15 Min­utes

Dis­cov­er the Only Paint­ing Van Gogh Ever Sold Dur­ing His Life­time

Vin­cent Van Gogh’s Final Paint­ing: Dis­cov­er Tree Roots, the Last Cre­ative Act of the Dutch Painter (1890)

Down­load Vin­cent van Gogh’s Col­lec­tion of 500 Japan­ese Prints, Which Inspired Him to Cre­ate “the Art of the Future”

Josh Jones is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC.

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New App Lets You Explore Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Virtual Reality

in Art | February 9th, 2016

Yes­ter­day, Col­in Mar­shall told you how you could take a Vir­tu­al Inter­ac­tive Tour Through Hierony­mus Bosch’s Mas­ter­piece “The Gar­den of Earth­ly Delights,” thanks to this web­site.

Today, we dis­cov­ered that there’s also an app (designed for iPhone, iPad and Android) that lets you take a vir­tu­al real­i­ty trip through the very same paint­ing. Cre­at­ed as part of the 500th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion of Bosch’s life, the app–previewed in the trail­er above–lets you “ride on a fly­ing fish into a Gar­den of Eden, be tempt­ed by strange fruit and even stranger rit­u­als in the Gar­den of Earth­ly Delights. And vis­it hell and hear the devil’s music.”

The app is free. And you can explore parts of Bosch’s famous trip­tych at no cost. It will cost you a small fee–$3.99–to unlock the remain­ing part.

If you would like to sup­port the mis­sion of Open Cul­ture, con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion to our site. It’s hard to rely 100% on ads, and your con­tri­bu­tions will help us con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing the best free cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al mate­ri­als to learn­ers every­where. You can con­tribute through Pay­Pal, Patre­on, and Ven­mo (@openculture). Thanks!



via The Cre­ator’s Project

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Take a Vir­tu­al Tour of Hierony­mus Bosch’s Bewil­der­ing Mas­ter­piece The Gar­den of Earth­ly Delights

 Walk Inside a Sur­re­al­ist Sal­vador Dalí Paint­ing with This 360º Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty Video

Free Course: An Intro­duc­tion to the Art of the Ital­ian Renais­sance

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