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Jheronimus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delights – Interactive

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This is a good example of the kind of content that my ideal Internet would be composed of. There would be no social networks, no comments or like buttons, no advertisements, no search engines. Every website would be substantial. It's nice to dream.

Why no search engines? How would you find these good websites?

Back then we had abstracts, indices, bibliographies, librarians. Let's not pretend that the literature was inaccessible before Google.

Sure, but "search and query" is still incredibly useful in many situations compared to indexes or even curated lists/collections. I certainly use those as well but both models are tools suited to particular situations.

And you spent countless hours or even days finding the most relevant documents.

Mosaic had a "What's New" page... for quite a while that was the main way of finding new stuff on the web!

Why are you browsing hackernews and not browsing google?

Hey, we used to browse 'directories' (like yahoo and dmoz) to find content, before search engines were better than 'wget + grep'...

I am doing both.

There are no links to more relevant information either. It seems like one of the most basic features of HTML, and arguably it's most important one, wasn't used.

This is one of the most well-executed attempts to bring real-world art online I've ever seen.

I've always hoped that the internet could expand access to art, but I've always felt that the experience of viewing art and commentary through a computer really fails to capture the essence of experiencing it in real life. I hope that other institutions will learn from this and apply the lessons to their own cultural mission.

This reminds me of those educational/cultural interactive cdroms that were a thing in the 90s/early 2000s and that my local library had a for a 1-week rent. Most of them were kinda fun (for a kid) even though I wished in those times they had a copy of Diablo 1 instead! Anyway, it just seems to me that technology has lost the drive to produce this kind of content which was more prevalent before.

Mmm. I found it too annoying to use --- the commentary is exceedingly opinionated about what it is it thinks I should be looking at; I'd zoom in on a detail that attracted my attention, click on the button to bring up the text, and while I was reading it would pan and zoom randomly to something else. Synchronised to some audio track I wasn't listening to, maybe? But I hadn't finished looking at the first thing, dammit. And then it would pan and zoom again when putting the text away.

It felt like it was punishing me for trying to explore the (incredible) painting on my own, rather than following the approved guided tour.

This is pretty good too.

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/index_sistina_en.htm

I know this doesn't add much, but... that is awesome.

It would be cool to have this with a lot of other artwork, but I can't imagine a better subject than TGoED as a teaser.

what a wonderful, positive addition to the internet. thanks to the people involved in making this freely available and so easily explorable.

My company makes training content for people in the heavy industries. One of our main offerings is taking traditional paper schematics and bringing them to life with animation and interactivity. It's amazing for me to see a similar treatment given to a work of art — seeing it brought to life with software, but done in a way that's reverential of the original work. The sound design and voice over narration in this project is remarkably well-executed. Everything is done so tastefully. Even though I work in a comparatively artless STEM field, there's so much about this Bosch site that my team can learn from. Thank you for posting it.

This is indeed awesome! I am not well versed in art, and it is always a pleasure to learn more about the subject and the stories it tells.

This probably will net me some negative attention, but I would like to also add this:

Where are the people crying fowl about pages requiring javascript? Here we have an excellent example of the quality of content that can be achieved by embracing a script-friendly internet.

I'm a fan of novelist Michael Connelly. The main character in his most popular series is named after this artist...

http://www.michaelconnelly.com/extras/series/#Bosch

aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch and a contemporary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer

Note also that this is the root name for 'Jerome' and also the famous native American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus

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