The Five Senses (series)

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The Five Senses is a series of genre paintings by David Teniers the Younger that allegorically depict everyday 17th-century Flemish life while personifying each of the human senses.

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instanceOf genre painting series
painting series
artForm oil painting
artHistoricalCategory allegories of the senses
artisticSchool Flemish painting
artisticStyle detailed genre realism
associatedWith Antwerp art market
countryOfOrigin Southern Netherlands NERFINISHED
creator David Teniers the Younger NERFINISHED
creatorNationality Flemish
culturalContext Counter-Reformation Southern Netherlands NERFINISHED
depicts domestic interiors
everyday 17th-century Flemish life
food and drink
interiors with figures engaged in sensory activities
musical performance
social interaction
tavern scenes
genre allegorical painting
genre painting
hasPart Hearing (painting by David Teniers the Younger) NERFINISHED
Sight (painting by David Teniers the Younger) NERFINISHED
Smell (painting by David Teniers the Younger) NERFINISHED
Taste (painting by David Teniers the Younger) NERFINISHED
Touch (painting by David Teniers the Younger) NERFINISHED
hasTheme everyday life
moralizing allegory
sensory experience
iconography objects symbolizing each sense
influencedBy earlier Flemish allegorical traditions
languageOfTitle Dutch
English
French
mainSubject five senses
human senses
movement Flemish Baroque NERFINISHED
notableFor combination of everyday realism and allegory
personification of abstract concepts through common people
portrays contemporary 17th-century clothing
middle-class Flemish interiors
musical instruments
smoking and drinking
tableware and food
relatedWork The Five Senses (series by Jan Brueghel the Elder and others) NERFINISHED
timePeriod 17th century
useOfAllegory personification of each of the human senses

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David Teniers the Younger notableWork The Five Senses (series)