Painting ID:: 63825
Allegory of the Five Senses 1668 Oil on canvas Glasgow Museum, Glasgow The senses are represented as women and children engaged in some typical activity and with attributes. Hearing is associated with music. Sight holds a mirror. Taste has a fruit and Smell a bunch of flowers. Touch has a bird perching on her raised hand.Artist:LAIRESSE, G?rard de Title: Allegory of the Five Senses Painted in 1651-1700 , Dutch - - painting : mythological
Painting ID:: 84273
Allegory of the Five Senses oil on panel 78.2 x 124.4 cm (30 13/16 x 49 in.) Date 1622(1622)
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LIEVENS, Jan Dutch painter (b. 1607, Leiden, d. 1674, Amsterdam)
Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His work has often suffered by comparison with that of Rembrandt, with whom he was closely associated from 1625 to 1631. Yet Lievens's early work is equal to that of Rembrandt, although in later years he turned more towards a somewhat facile rendering of the international Baroque style favoured by his noble patrons, thus never fully realizing his early promise. Nonetheless, he became a renowned portrait painter and draughtsman, and his drawings Allegory of the Five Senses oil on panel 78.2 x 124.4 cm (30 13/16 x 49 in.) Date 1622(1622)
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