Allegory of the Five Senses
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| - | + | ''[[Allegory of the Five Senses]]''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1668_G%C3%A9rard_de_Lairesse_-_Allegory_of_the_Five_Senses.jpg] (1668) is a painting of the [[five senses]] by [[Gérard de Lairesse]]. Each of the figures in the main group allude to a sense: [[Sight]] is the reclining boy with a [[convex mirror]], [[hearing]] is the [[cupid]]-like boy with a [[Triangle (instrument)|triangle]], [[smell]] is represented by the girl with flowers, [[taste]] is represented by the woman with the fruit, and [[touch]] is represented by the woman holding the bird. | |
| - | Depictions of the five traditional senses as [[allegory]] became a popular subject for seventeenth-century artists, especially among [[Dutch Golden Age painting|Dutch]] and [[Flemish Baroque painter]]s. A typical example is [[Gérard de Lairesse]]'s ''[[Allegory of the Five Senses]]'' (1668), in which each of the figures in the main group allude to a sense: Sight is the reclining boy with a [[convex mirror]], hearing is the [[cupid]]-like boy with a [[Triangle (instrument)|triangle]], smell is represented by the girl with flowers, taste is represented by the woman with the fruit, and touch is represented by the woman holding the bird. | + | |
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Allegory of the Five Senses[1] (1668) is a painting of the five senses by Gérard de Lairesse. Each of the figures in the main group allude to a sense: Sight is the reclining boy with a convex mirror, hearing is the cupid-like boy with a triangle, smell is represented by the girl with flowers, taste is represented by the woman with the fruit, and touch is represented by the woman holding the bird.
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