I just read an article about a college girl who noticed (not the first one to notice, I'm sure...but...) a musical score on the butt of a character from the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
She was studying the triptych and noticed there was music score written on someone's ass. Certainly she didn't discover that. Keep in mind, this painting was made (copy and paste Wiki):
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Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between about 40 and 60 years old, it is his best-known and most ambitious complete work. It reveals the artist at the height of his powers; in no other painting does he achieve such complexity of meaning or such vivid imagery.
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Here's a high res link of the original work:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th...Resolution.jpg
And here's the video of the young lady, named Amelia, talking about how she decided to transcribe the music. How curious and smart is she? It's a Cooper "ridiculist' but it totally honors her.
It's just really cute.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvi...diculist__CNN/
Thanks, Amelia. I'd seen the triptych in books but had never studied it so much.