Allegory of the senses
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Allegory of the senses is a subject of painting[1].
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.
The Blind Girl (1856) by John Everett Millais has also been interpreted as an allegory of the senses.
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See also
- The Five Senses (series) by Jan Brueghel the Elder
- The Five Senses (pair of paintings) by Jan Brueghel the Elder
- Allegory of the Five Senses (1668), Gerard de Lairesse
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