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September 3

The Garden of Earthly Delights

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– 136.54.106.120 (talk) 01:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The right panel of Bosch's triptych features a number of musical instruments. Although fanciful, most seem to be based on actual instruments. The big one near the middle (of the detail linked above) has me stumped, however. Is it completely fabricated from the surreal mind of the artist, or is there an actual instrument similar to that? -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 00:41, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like a Hurdy-gurdy - very common then and for much later. Johnbod (talk) 00:59, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is one - apparently the first image showing the "buzzing bridge" feature. Johnbod (talk) 01:19, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! That's a new one for me. -- 136.54.106.120 (talk) 01:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Here in the UK, I've seen hurdy-gurdies played by street buskers and at music festivals within the last five years. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.194.81.165 (talk) 18:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've never seen one in the US; I only know about them from the Donovan song. 136.54.106.120 (talk) 21:18, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

When I was little (in the UK), I knew the word "hurdy gurdy", but I thought it meant a barrel organ. It was only after I started to get into the folk scene that I discovered what a hurdy gurdy really is. ColinFine (talk) 10:34, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've seen one being played last month, here in the Netherlands, fairly close to where Bosch came from. Is was played in a 14th century castle by a man wearing period clothes. PiusImpavidus (talk) 18:41, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Self portrait of Frits Van den Berghe

Hello!

I recently uploaded this self-portrait of Frits Van den Berghe to Commons, and I changed the {{Information}} template to {{Artwork}}, which was more fitting.

However, I can't find any information about this template online. Reverse image searching only led me to basically just Wikipedia (including sister sites and mirrors thereof), and the Pinterest post I uploaded from.

Where is the painting (In what museum/institution)? What are its dimensions? Does the painting have an official artwork title? (shoutout to ChatGPT for helping with that article)

Cheers, --QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 22:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You write, "information about this template". Did you mean to write, "information about this painting"? I found this much: 'Frits VAN DEN BERGHE (1883 – 1939) – “Selfportrait” (1933) – oil on canvas 66 × 53 cm'.^[1] The Francis Maere Fine Arts Gallery may have information about its current whereabouts. --Lambiam 09:17, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Lambiam: Yes, that is indeed what I meant! I was very tired when I wrote that.

Thank you for the swift and helpful reply! QuickQuokka ^{[⁠talk • contribs]} 15:53, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

police and art

In the Wikipedia page for Stanisław Witkiewicz, under publications there is listed, Policja a sztuka. (police and art) Where can I find the text?

Thank you 2600:1700:3D74:F010:B03A:3C3B:C8C9:D2A0 (talk) 23:49, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

At the bottom of Stanisław Witkiewicz there are links to the Internet Archive and Open Library, try that. RudolfRed (talk) 00:54, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like maybe not there? I'm not sure. RudolfRed (talk) 00:56, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Piotrus might know Elinruby (talk) 03:55, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bleh, this is harder than what I thought. Added a ref to the article, but note sources quote the article name differently (some call it just 'Policja a sztuka', some add subtitle 'Odpowiedź na ankietę' and add it before of after 'Policja a sztuka'. Seems 'Policja a sztuka' was a title of a reader survey, and Witkiewicz wrote a nice responce to it. Bibliographical info is meh, magazine is titled Krytka but pl wiki does not have an entry for it yet (it has one for a similarly named magazine from decades later). Not sure this Witkiewicz article(?) has been digitized, browse stuff like this and some other resutls from Google query 'magazyn krytyka 1902' which seem to return some results from Polish digital libraries (the work is old enough and SW died in 1915 so it may be in public domain). If you find it, please consider adding it to Wikisource (Polish, no English for SW yet). I tried googling (plus GB) for excerpts cited in https://doi.org/10.12775%2FLC.2018.008 but no luck, all I get is that one article, so it seems that the work has either been not digitized yet, or not indexed. _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:41, 4 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you 2600:1700:3D74:F010:9024:F1CD:A98F:FDF7 (talk) 01:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]