The skull in The Ambassadors is a signature. Holbein put a skull in most of his works, as a literal signature. His name roughly translate to “hollow bone” so he uses a skull to represent his name instead of signing.
The Arnolfini Portrait is my favourite painting. The detail in it is amazing. Not only is there a reflection in the mirror, but the mirror is surrounded by 12 perfect miniature paintings of the Passion of Christ!!!
The Sistine Chapel is the single greatest "Fuck you" in human history. This video didn't even cover every spite-fueled Easter egg Michelangelo put in there. The best part of it all is that the high quality and sheer detail of the whole thing is a massive middle-finger in and of itself. Michelangelo's passion was always sculpting, not painting, and his chief rivals got him the job with the chapel in the hopes that it would humiliate him and ruin his career. Instead, it made him one of the most celebrated artists of the Renaissance, second only to Leonardo.
Even 100s of years later, it's still a fuck you. Art History 101, The History of Art, "the Sistine Chapel paintings are those colours because he was a sculptor and he painted as if his figures were made from marble". And then, The Vatican cleaned the paintings and aww fuck. The colours are really f'n bright. Annnnd everyone has to buy the new, edited 150th edition of The History of Art. ;)
In his lifetime, Rembrandt painted about 800 works. Of these, approximately 3,000 are still in existence. (It is estimated that as much as 20% of the art hanging in the world's finest museums are fakes.)
There's also a mini Jesus in "the ambassadors" using the same illusion. It's a Jesus on the cross in the top left hand corner. I don't know what it means, but still... P cool
The theory is that the painting was more about the machinations in politics and political assassinations than it was about the two subjects who were friends. If you're at all interested, and you have an hour lol, here's an excellent essay about all the imagery in the painting. Back then, nothing was ever painted just because. If you look at the first painting in the video, the marriage by Frans Holbein, everything means something, even the colour of her dress. It's a total rabbit hole to go down, looking at symbolism in classical paintings but it's endlessly fascinating. markcalderwood.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-ambassadors-secret/
There was an art history class that I had taken in college. The class was interesting and intriguing. It had different types of art in illusions and different periods in which the paintings were created. I learned the different styles of creations and to focus on the paintings that the various artists had created. Most paintings were created in the Mediterrean Era which were in Leonardi Davinci's and Michealangelo's time.
You can actually see the skull in "The Ambassadors" from any format (not just in person) by turning your screen or book and looking at the painting from an extreme angle
and the one whose name i cant pronounce. what humility and honesty! some people will try to bucher the name but u didnt. with a great sense of humour, u avoided something that would have made people from Eastern Europe cringe their teeths cos of the wrong pronunciation. awesome!
I liked this list but its most of this is basic ART101. Its hard to miss when the only time we see these paintings anymore is when they are specifically mentioned for the things you thought we would miss.
The Last Supper one is silly, it isn't Mary Magdalene in the painting it's John who was said to be one of the younger apostles so he was depicted as being without facial hair, besides if it's Mary Magdalene then there is a missing apostle yet nobody bothered to mention that.
Fun fact about the Night's Watch: 2 of the people on there were removed from the actual painting. In the Rijksmuseum, part of the top, right and left of the painting were cut off when they were moving it (I heard it's because that was the only way to get the painting inside, but I'm not sure if that's true.) Next to the huge, actual painting is a much smaller version, which shows what it used to look like. There's two people on the left, a bit of space at the top, and the bodies of the people on the right, which were removed when they cut the painting.
they cut it down about 75 years after it was painted when it was moved to the Amsterdam Stadhuis (City hall) and it wouldn't fit the wall it was designated for. It was fairly common to chop off bits of paintings if it didn't fit where you wanted to hang it.
Look for the the play PENTECOST. The poster I saw in 1995 has gods finger on one side & a Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol on the other in a dark version of the Cistene Chapel. It is an amazing play.
Fuck "modern art" and "subjective beauty." This is a list of true art (aesthetic appeal, symbolism, and technique all combined into pieces that will stand the test of time)
Can North Korea just wait a couple of years to blow up the world Because you know I don't feel like dying before the last season of game of thrones but after that go ahead I won't stop you
I can see where Michelangelo was coming from sticking the stuff in the paintings in the Sistine Chapel, I mean if I had to spend who-knows-how-long painting a church I would be pretty grumpy too.
The skull in The Ambassadors is a signature. Holbein put a skull in most of his works, as a literal signature. His name roughly translate to “hollow bone” so he uses a skull to represent his name instead of signing.
HI
Not because he was a Freemason? Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.
The Arnolfini Portrait is my favourite painting. The detail in it is amazing. Not only is there a reflection in the mirror, but the mirror is surrounded by 12 perfect miniature paintings of the Passion of Christ!!!
So that fisherman definitely had greyscale and Rembrandt was in the Nights Watch
Dallas Brooks He's got Bran in his name! How did we miss this?
Ah artists, geniuses at one moment, total trolls the next XD.
this was highly entertaining.
I hope there will be more videos on paintings. There are so many amazing things in them. Such amazing details.
I fucking love paintings
Cool.
Same
Now see, this is quality content.Great job guys!
Nice idea for a video! More art based stuff please, with Ben or P Lumpz ;)
More videos of art, please!!!
Andrea Escalante - I agree!!!🎨
Agreed!!! More like this!
Seconded. Great video
Andrea Escalante l
Ye! More art vids please. Also more Tiny Peter voicing lists.
Is a hidden detail the fact that you mispelled details as 'detals' at 0:32
James Wilson o, their just idiots ;-)
i-i-it was intentional, i tells ya!
Maybe that was intentional lol
Darth Musturd it was definitely intentional
I'd did it too and nobody realized it
The Sistine Chapel is the single greatest "Fuck you" in human history. This video didn't even cover every spite-fueled Easter egg Michelangelo put in there. The best part of it all is that the high quality and sheer detail of the whole thing is a massive middle-finger in and of itself. Michelangelo's passion was always sculpting, not painting, and his chief rivals got him the job with the chapel in the hopes that it would humiliate him and ruin his career. Instead, it made him one of the most celebrated artists of the Renaissance, second only to Leonardo.
Even 100s of years later, it's still a fuck you. Art History 101, The History of Art, "the Sistine Chapel paintings are those colours because he was a sculptor and he painted as if his figures were made from marble". And then, The Vatican cleaned the paintings and aww fuck. The colours are really f'n bright. Annnnd everyone has to buy the new, edited 150th edition of The History of Art. ;)
Nice.
This is probably my absolute favourite whatculture list. More, please!
In his lifetime, Rembrandt painted about 800 works.
Of these, approximately 3,000 are still in existence.
(It is estimated that as much as 20% of the art hanging in the world's finest museums are fakes.)
Those numbers do not seem right at all. A bit off they seem.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN makes my day.
Same bro
There's also a mini Jesus in "the ambassadors" using the same illusion. It's a Jesus on the cross in the top left hand corner. I don't know what it means, but still... P cool
Probably the usual christian message. The death will come, but so will salvation...
The theory is that the painting was more about the machinations in politics and political assassinations than it was about the two subjects who were friends. If you're at all interested, and you have an hour lol, here's an excellent essay about all the imagery in the painting. Back then, nothing was ever painted just because. If you look at the first painting in the video, the marriage by Frans Holbein, everything means something, even the colour of her dress. It's a total rabbit hole to go down, looking at symbolism in classical paintings but it's endlessly fascinating. markcalderwood.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/the-ambassadors-secret/
marie anne I'll check that out, thank you
And Lincoln appears ... sort of ... TWICE on most American pennies.
Also the universal S symbol on the cloth.
Conspiracy theories aside, the music thing actually sounds like something DaVinci would do.
And apparently, music was already being written in a similar way at the time.
That was awesome video. I want to see more like this👍
There was an art history class that I had taken in college. The class was interesting and intriguing. It had different types of art in illusions and different periods in which the paintings were created. I learned the different styles of creations and to focus on the paintings that the various artists had created. Most paintings were created in the Mediterrean Era which were in Leonardi Davinci's and Michealangelo's time.
You can actually see the skull in "The Ambassadors" from any format (not just in person) by turning your screen or book and looking at the painting from an extreme angle
“A MASSIVE SKULL”
That made my day so much better
I love this video. It's very intresting
great job Ben, i love this style of parenthetical humor. Well done ☮️
WhatCulture does actual culture - woohoo! Yes please, more of these!
At the end... did he say "equivalent to flicking the V's"...??? I couldn't hear it very well.
Cheryl Sees Yes he did
that's the British version of Flipping the Bird
Oh I thought it was like flicking the bean..
after i replayed that part in order to hear what the narrator said, i took a not-so-good guess as to what it means.
Great content! You made me laugh and replay several times the part with the artist's name you cannot pronounce. 😄
*_The "Flood of 4006" was my favorite mass extinction event that I've lived through._*
2000 years to wait.....!
Yess as an art major I live for this
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I was right, always adding the culture to 'what culture' well.done ben
Please more of these! This channel shouldn't only be comic book movie news!
This is extremely awesome mate.
I like your sense of humour and your explanations, very funny
and the one whose name i cant pronounce. what humility and honesty! some people will try to bucher the name but u didnt. with a great sense of humour, u avoided something that would have made people from Eastern Europe cringe their teeths cos of the wrong pronunciation. awesome!
Gosh. The level of mastery was crazy back then. Plus paints were harder to get and use...
Number 3 is the cover of Fleet Foxes debut album. Thank you for enlightening me on what it all means!
This is the best list video on this channel.
Every time you go back to great art it will reveal something new
Nice job guys; you just put the "CULTURE" in WhatCluture!!! 👍🏽👍🏽
Absolutely stellar!
This was fun! Thanx!
great video moooore! finally something really intresting on youtube!
I know very little about art and I don't care about it but Ben has a beautiful voice
A very fine vid WhatCulture.
The way he talks reaallyyy makes it more entertaining XD
This was a great one.
Entertaining and informational!
The pickpocket in Frans Snyders' "Still-Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables" is a personal favorite.
I liked this list but its most of this is basic ART101. Its hard to miss when the only time we see these paintings anymore is when they are specifically mentioned for the things you thought we would miss.
Ben I'm still waiting for a #blankforwankers
Love your voice!
this was a visually amusing, mind entertaining, aesthetic video!
"Easter eggs" of time . Now that's art ! :)
I'm dying at the commentary during The Old Fisherman XD
The Last Supper one is silly, it isn't Mary Magdalene in the painting it's John who was said to be one of the younger apostles so he was depicted as being without facial hair, besides if it's Mary Magdalene then there is a missing apostle yet nobody bothered to mention that.
How quickly Simon seems to have forgotten that extremis makes you EXPLODE
delightful! more like this please. Also, Ben is a card...
Jees, that mirror was well done!
Like the DaVinci Code. . Can you find Waldo?
Oh the fun things I learned in art school! I loved learning about all the fun little tid bits in the Sistine Chapel. Makes me giggle every time!
OMG the fisherman once " completed " is a dead ringer for Jeremy Corben !
I'd love it if they made another channel called WhatCulture Art ❤️🎨
Fun fact about the Night's Watch: 2 of the people on there were removed from the actual painting. In the Rijksmuseum, part of the top, right and left of the painting were cut off when they were moving it (I heard it's because that was the only way to get the painting inside, but I'm not sure if that's true.) Next to the huge, actual painting is a much smaller version, which shows what it used to look like. There's two people on the left, a bit of space at the top, and the bodies of the people on the right, which were removed when they cut the painting.
they cut it down about 75 years after it was painted when it was moved to the Amsterdam Stadhuis (City hall) and it wouldn't fit the wall it was designated for. It was fairly common to chop off bits of paintings if it didn't fit where you wanted to hang it.
500 years from now it will be a A4 sized painting
Look for the the play PENTECOST. The poster I saw in 1995 has gods finger on one side & a Browning Hi-Power semi-automatic pistol on the other in a dark version of the Cistene Chapel. It is an amazing play.
Videos like this should be more often. We're tired of all that superhero and movie trivia stuff.
I am surprised you did not mention the extra hand in the last supper painting.
I miss Ben!
Neeeerrrddddssss!
Dislike for not looking up the pronounciation of Hungarian painter Csontváry Kosztka Tivadar.
I did, however, notice you can't spell details! (00:33)
Love the vids - keep 'em coming!
What is the song playing in the background??
Breaking Bad reference at 5:38
Fuck "modern art" and "subjective beauty." This is a list of true art (aesthetic appeal, symbolism, and technique all combined into pieces that will stand the test of time)
I love your voice!! 😄
0:35 detals. Hehe.
4:43 that scared me more than it should have
Great video.
Can North Korea just wait a couple of years to blow up the world Because you know I don't feel like dying before the last season of game of thrones but after that go ahead I won't stop you
Is nobody going to mention that the Neverlandish Proverbs is the Fleet Foxes album art?
I can see where Michelangelo was coming from sticking the stuff in the paintings in the Sistine Chapel, I mean if I had to spend who-knows-how-long painting a church I would be pretty grumpy too.
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Trump: “Hold my beer”
Bush Jr. did lie us into an illegal war though.
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Great! Do more art stuff :) !!
michael angelo s chapel paintings looks like a tesseract
Ben is the best
this was a great video! :)
The Sisteen Chapel one is hilarious
You got em good Michaelangelo!
King Crimson's The Night's Watch is an excellent song about the painting
6:32 oh je... this is a small thing 😂
So you skipped the name of the artist Hieronymus Bosch who made the painting with the proverbs!!!!!!!!
Most of these you get if you take an Art History Course in college....
5:44
Where's Jon in this
Look at it now, it's on the screen, LOOK AT IT!!
Who's here before 500 views?
Who's here before 100?
Me
Momento Mori? sounds familiar
Micheal Angelo was and still a Rock Star, take no crap Mike 👍😎
10) The dog in the painting is there to represent fidelity, because Dogs are loyal af.
That was awesome
No mention of the disembodied hand in The Last Supper...
Could have also had Raphael hidden in the School of Athens fresco
You missed the Holy Grail cup thats over the head of the 1st guy far left...blended into the background at 1:25