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Sensory history is an area of academic study which examines the role the five senses have played in the past. It developed partly as a reaction to the lack of serious attention given to sensory experience in traditional history books, which often treat sensory experience as a writing technique rather than a serious avenue of enquiry. [1]
The Senses is a series of five oil paintings, completed c. 1624 or 1625 by Rembrandt, depicting the five senses. [1] The whereabouts of one, representing the sense of taste, is unknown. Another, representing smell, was only re-identified in 2015.
The concept of five inward wits similarly came from Classical views on psychology. Modern thinking is that there are more than five (outward) senses, and the idea that there are five (corresponding to the gross anatomical features — eyes, ears, nose, skin, and mouth — of many higher animals) does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
The central idea of this model is that experience is represented in the mind in sensorial terms, i.e. in terms of the putative five senses, qualia. [3] According to Bandler and Grinder our chosen words, phrases and sentences are indicative of our referencing of each of the representational systems. [4]
Our human olfactory sense is one of the most phylogenetically primitive [55] and emotionally intimate [56] of the five senses; the sensation of smell is thought to be the most matured and developed human sense. Human ancestors essentially depended on their sense of smell to alert themselves of danger such as poisonous food and to locate potent ...
There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense-organs. The tanmatras combine and re-combine in different ways to produce the gross elements – ether, air, fire, water, and earth – which make up the gross universe ...
The Senses of Sight and Smell, 1618; copy c. 1620 The Senses of Hearing, Touch and Taste, 1618; copy c. 1620. The Five Senses are a pair of oil paintings made by Jan Brueghel the Elder and others in 1617-1618, at the same time as he was working with Peter Paul Rubens on a series of five paintings on the same topic.
[1] [2] The allegorical representation of the five senses as female figures had begun in the previous century, the earliest known examples being the Lady and the Unicorn series of tapestries, which date to around 1500, [3] but Brueghel was the first to illustrate the theme using assemblages of works of art, musical instruments, scientific ...