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The Five Senses is a series of five paintings depicting allegories of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch, painted by Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier in 1650. Each sense is personified by a young boy. [1] The paintings have been loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, by their owners, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. [2]
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 Five Senses, also known as Summer is a signed and dated 1633 oil painting by Sebastian Stoskopff. It was painted at the height of the artist's stay in Paris from 1621 to 1640/1641. Together with its slightly wider pendant The Four Elements , or Winter (114 x 188 cm, or 45 x 74 in), it is today in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame .
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.
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.
Allegories of the Five Senses is a series of early-17th-century paintings by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera. One of the series ( Hearing ) has been lost and is known only through copies. According to the art historian Giulio Mancini , a contemporary of the artist, their commissioner was Spanish but they were probably produced during Ribera ...
Sensory organs are organs that sense and transduce stimuli. Humans have various sensory organs (i.e. eyes, ears, skin, nose, and mouth) that correspond to a respective visual system (sense of vision), auditory system (sense of hearing), somatosensory system (sense of touch), olfactory system (sense of smell), and gustatory system (sense of taste).
The dictionary of the Russian language...defines the sense of touch as follows: "In reality all five senses can be reduced to one---the sense of touch. The tongue and palate sense the food; the ear, sound waves; the nose, emanations; the eyes, rays of light." That is why in all textbooks the sense of touch is always mentioned first.