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''The Five Senses'' is a set of allegorical paintings created at Antwerp in 1617–18 by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, with Brueghel being responsible for the settings and Rubens for the figures. They are now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. They are all painted in oils on wood panel, approximately in dimensions. The series constitutes one of the best known and most successful collaborations by Brueghel and Rubens, who were close friends.〔Ariane van Suchtelen, "8. Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, ''Allegory of Taste'', in: Anne T. Woollett, Ariane van Suchtelen, ''et al.'', ''Rubens & Brueghel: A Working Friendship'', Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006, ISBN 9780892368471, pp. 90–99, (p. 90 ).〕〔(''Sight'' ), Online gallery, Prado Museum, retrieved 9 September 2014.〕 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,〔Carl Nordenfalk, ("The Five Senses in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art" ), ''Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes'' 48 (1985) 1–22, p. 7.〕 but Brueghel was the first to illustrate the theme using assemblages of works of art, musical instruments, scientific instruments and military equipment, accompanied by flowers, game and fish.〔 His approach was widely copied in later Flemish painting.〔 ==Description== Rubens painted the allegorical female figures, accompanied by a putto or a winged Cupid in ''Sight'', ''Hearing'', ''Smell'' and ''Touch'', by a satyr in ''Taste''. Brueghel created the sumptuous settings, which evoke the splendour of the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, and his wife Isabella, governors of the Spanish Netherlands, to which the two artists were attached.〔 (The eroticism of the figures' near-nudity has been related to ecstasy in luxury.〔Emil Krén and Daniel Marx, (''The Sense of Hearing'' ), Web Gallery, retrieved 11 September 2014.〕) Thus, in ''Sight'' the female figure is contemplating a painting of Christ's restoring the sight of a blind man, in a cabinet of curiosities full of pictures, antique busts, ''objets d'art'', and scientific instruments. The figure in ''Hearing'' is playing the lute amongst a collection of musical instruments and clocks. In ''Smell'', she sits among flowers in a garden, with a perfume distillery visible on the left. In ''Taste'', seated at a table groaning with food fit for a banquet, she is eating an oyster and a satyr is filling her glass. In ''Touch'', she embraces a putto in a superbly equipped armoury where there are also medical instruments, pain being an aspect of touch.〔Van Suchtelen, pp. 90, (94 ), 97.〕 The majority of the details relate to the theme: for example, in ''Sight'' the paintings which can be seen range through almost every genre, and include ''St Cecilia'', the patroness of eyesight, and the inclusion of both real and painted garlands of flowers alludes to the contemporary debate about the relative status of art and nature.〔Van Suchtelen, (p. 96 ).〕 It has been suggested that Albert and Isabella commissioned the set, since many details refer to them: three of the paintings show their palaces in the background, and ''Sight'' depicts a double portrait of the couple and a portrait of Albert on horseback, as well as a double-headed Habsburg eagle on the chandelier.〔Van Suchtelen, (p. 94 ).〕 In ''Hearing'', the music is a madrigal dedicated to the couple.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Five Senses (series)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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