Allegory of the Senses
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Allegory of the Senses[1] is a painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder, held at the Museo del Prado.
Depictions of the five traditional senses as allegory became a popular subject for seventeenth-century artists, especially among Dutch and Flemish Baroque painters. 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.
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