10 Hidden Details You Never Noticed In Famous Paintings

[@Terri_MacKay]

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!!!

[@joegiotta7580]

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.

[@toosiyabrandt8676]

HI Not because he was a Freemason? Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.

[@ErosIncarnate]

So that fisherman definitely had greyscale and Rembrandt was in the Nights Watch

[@gunslinger2566]

Dallas Brooks He's got Bran in his name! How did we miss this?

[@angeloffish]

I hope there will be more videos on paintings. There are so many amazing things in them. Such amazing details.

[@Kefiafusu]

this was highly entertaining.

[@andreaescalante3396]

More videos of art, please!!!

[@marissahammer2229]

Andrea Escalante - I agree!!!🎨

[@YOYOTh1s]

Agreed!!! More like this!

[@Lengstrom]

Seconded. Great video

[@stephenstrange4680]

Andrea Escalante l

[@asherslayden6318]

Ye! More art vids please. Also more Tiny Peter voicing lists.

[@Gav_80085]

Nice idea for a video! More art based stuff please, with Ben or P Lumpz ;)

[@ManOfEngland12]

I fucking love paintings

[@johnbrett3508]

Cool.

[@Idk-lz3ep]

Same

[@EmilioReyes_97]

Ah artists, geniuses at one moment, total trolls the next XD.

[@louisjohnson3888]

This is probably my absolute favourite whatculture list. More, please!

[@darklime191]

Now see, this is quality content.Great job guys!

[@teresaspurlock590]

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.

[@yamisquishy6898]

Is a hidden detail the fact that you mispelled details as 'detals' at 0:32

[@darthmusturd9526]

James Wilson o, their just idiots ;-)

[@alveolate]

i-i-it was intentional, i tells ya!

[@misterrightuk]

Maybe that was intentional lol

[@willow7610]

Darth Musturd it was definitely intentional

[@darthmusturd9526]

I'd did it too and nobody realized it

[@emilymortimer-webb8551]

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

[@giantotter319]

Probably the usual christian message. The death will come, but so will salvation...

[@marieanne2680]

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/

[@emilymortimer-webb8551]

marie anne I'll check that out, thank you

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

And Lincoln appears ... sort of ... TWICE on most American pennies.

[@williamroberts5716]

Also the universal S symbol on the cloth.

[@erinbenz4242]

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

[@mayorb3366]

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.)

[@JANEEDISTURBED]

Those numbers do not seem right at all. A bit off they seem.

[@TDWPR00lz1]

“A MASSIVE SKULL” That made my day so much better

[@bartekkubicaku-bitsa9802]

That was awesome video. I want to see more like this👍

[@johnbrett3508]

Please more of these! This channel shouldn't only be comic book movie news!

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

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.

[@marieanne2680]

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. ;)

[@ChawkletStudios]

Nice.

[@Maerahn]

WhatCulture does actual culture - woohoo! Yes please, more of these!

[@JulianLinair]

Conspiracy theories aside, the music thing actually sounds like something DaVinci would do.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

And apparently, music was already being written in a similar way at the time.

[@lamajigmeg]

great job Ben, i love this style of parenthetical humor. Well done ☮️

[@charlieco1964]

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN makes my day.

[@rickkomedy5133]

Same bro

[@stevenwheeler6278]

I love this video. It's very intresting

[@CS-gn3ky]

At the end... did he say "equivalent to flicking the V's"...??? I couldn't hear it very well.

[@mafiablokes]

Cheryl Sees Yes he did

[@steamfans]

that's the British version of Flipping the Bird

[@Joshua-tn6rs]

Oh I thought it was like flicking the bean..

[@deboralee1623]

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.

[@jevinday]

Number 3 is the cover of Fleet Foxes debut album. Thank you for enlightening me on what it all means!

[@charleeb1467]

I like your sense of humour and your explanations, very funny

[@JenniferMcMahonhawaii78]

Nice job guys; you just put the "CULTURE" in WhatCluture!!! 👍🏽👍🏽

[@magnuskallas]

Gosh. The level of mastery was crazy back then. Plus paints were harder to get and use...

[@aresgalamatis7022]

This is the best list video on this channel.

[@postercrazed]

Every time you go back to great art it will reveal something new

[@crackmanson6428]

Absolutely stellar!

[@marcelweber7813]

Videos like this should be more often. We're tired of all that superhero and movie trivia stuff.

[@GabrielaLtc]

Great content! You made me laugh and replay several times the part with the artist's name you cannot pronounce. 😄

[@NickolasNameolas]

The pickpocket in Frans Snyders' "Still-Life with Dead Game, Fruits, and Vegetables" is a personal favorite.

[@UnEv3n]

How quickly Simon seems to have forgotten that extremis makes you EXPLODE

[@0NodMan0]

*_The "Flood of 4006" was my favorite mass extinction event that I've lived through._*

[@bernicecox5208]

2000 years to wait.....!

[@Lionheartwolf135]

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.

[@joseantoniodelgado109]

This is extremely awesome mate.

[@almachavez4816]

I'm dying at the commentary during The Old Fisherman XD

[@k2d10tode11]

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!

[@micmarlen]

great video moooore! finally something really intresting on youtube!

[@Gurbo8]

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.

[@marieanne2680]

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.

[@CharterForGaming]

500 years from now it will be a A4 sized painting

[@bladeofnexus7359]

I know very little about art and I don't care about it but Ben has a beautiful voice

[@dancole5795]

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.

[@aaaugh8122]

this was a visually amusing, mind entertaining, aesthetic video!

[@madstreaker84]

I was right, always adding the culture to 'what culture' well.done ben

[@MamaPinks]

This was fun! Thanx!

[@artyfarty3]

"Easter eggs" of time . Now that's art ! :)

[@LeoandLamb]

I'd love it if they made another channel called WhatCulture Art ❤️🎨

[@samhaines8228]

delightful! more like this please. Also, Ben is a card...

[@brokenbridge6316]

A very fine vid WhatCulture.

[@minanes6549]

Entertaining and informational!

[@mombiethezombie7536]

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!

[@keithconnelly825]

Top 10 most paused moments in KZbin history

[@dragonbreathsmaugh559]

OMG the fisherman once " completed " is a dead ringer for Jeremy Corben !

[@LittleFears]

Jees, that mirror was well done!

[@zel_b8330]

The way he talks reaallyyy makes it more entertaining XD

[@WickedNemesis]

This was a great one.

[@anniel6479]

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.

[@victortrevino3934]

The fisherman could be a painting of good and evil present in the same man. (I know this is an old vid but it's worth a thought)

[@danteanise3013]

I am surprised you did not mention the extra hand in the last supper painting.

[@smartbombentertainment9050]

Love your voice!

[@doomstadt2371]

10) The dog in the painting is there to represent fidelity, because Dogs are loyal af.

[@Sevenigma777]

But of course the first thing that comes to mind when i think of Whatculture is fine art.

[@charlirandom2494]

Ben I'm still waiting for a #blankforwankers

[@johncuccini5009]

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.

[@chewbaccabooberry]

King Crimson's The Night's Watch is an excellent song about the painting

[@BadYossa]

I did, however, notice you can't spell details! (00:33) Love the vids - keep 'em coming!

[@jb888888888]

Right away - the man in the mirror is practically the only reason, or thing, I do know about the Arnolfini Portrait.

[@joeneway]

You missed the Holy Grail cup thats over the head of the 1st guy far left...blended into the background at 1:25

[@jerryhoward5200]

Is nobody going to mention that the Neverlandish Proverbs is the Fleet Foxes album art?

[@buffycleaveland8116]

Look at it now, it's on the screen, LOOK AT IT!!

[@mjstory1976]

The Sisteen Chapel one is hilarious

[@Guest-zy8us]

The Gallery of Cornelis by Van Der Geest was obviously inspired by Raffaello's School of Athens.

[@dougr.2398]

Flicking the Vees? The equivalent being a slightly elevated forefinger? (Last remarks)

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

Like the DaVinci Code. . Can you find Waldo?

[@tarnim80]

this was a great video! :)

[@TheMoonlight2887]

I love your voice!! 😄

[@gentlegiant5678]

4:43 that scared me more than it should have

[@fancyf33t295]

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)

[@bigindian5555]

Micheal Angelo was and still a Rock Star, take no crap Mike 👍😎

[@tedjwallace]

Notice the figure of a nude woman painted by Michelangelo in the left calf and knee of Adam in the Sistine ceiling, too.

[@imcavdb5465]

It's not just the Dutch names you cannot pronounce, it's also misspelled (one artist at least)

[@swurvegirl1978]

#2 I knew about after watching an episode of Sense8 😁😁

[@IRFRAJ]

michael angelo s chapel paintings looks like a tesseract

[@phodder]

You got em good Michaelangelo!

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

There he is! I found Waldo! I saw the Brain.

[@bartolomeocannibal2060]

the last art the commissioned one it looks like a human heart :0

[@professorroundbottom438]

No mention of the disembodied hand in The Last Supper...

[@reyntonlaird3602]

Could have also had Raphael hidden in the School of Athens fresco

[@Selden83]

Michealangelo's The Last judgement has a cameo of Michealanglo himself as he is depicted as the torn skin of St. Barthalmeow.

[@SweetLilWren]

I miss Ben! Neeeerrrddddssss!

[@RebelNiki]

Great video.

[@mudcrab3420]

I actually knew two and a half of these, so feel just a little bit educated :D

[@derkcast620]

Man do i miss hearing "I'm Ben from Whatculture"

[@jacktaylor6155]

That was awesome

[@prateekpandey9269]

The last time I came early My girlfriend was unsatisfied

[@keithconnelly825]

Squalid Tuber Ahhh I see what you did there

[@Kerorofan1990]

Huh. Never noticed the brain thing.