Of the mirros sensorial: Depiction of mirrors in the allegories of Five Senses

art  mirrors  art    2014  © ©

Of the mirrors � sensorial

Depiction of Mirrors in the allegories of Five Senses

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Lubin Baugin - Nature morte à l'echiquier {Still life with chess} (c.1640)

Currently in the Louvre Museu, where I’ve seen it.

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Allégorie des cinq sens

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Taste

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Touch & Hearing

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Smell & Vision – as a Mirror

art  mirrors  art    2014  © ©

art  mirrors  art    2014  © ©

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Baugin (1612 – 1663) painted other still-life’s, but no more mirrors

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Later in his life he mostly painted religious works – alas, no mirrors, too

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacques Linard – The Five Senses (1638)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacques Linard – The Five Senses and the Four Elements (1640)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Two different – yet somewhat similar mirrors of Jacques Linard (1597–1645)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff – Still life with wine, loaf of bread and pies on a pewter plate (c.1620)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff – Still life with basket of glasses (c. 1640)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff – Still Life of Glasses in a Basket (1644)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff – The Great Vanity Still-Life (1641)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © The Great Vanity in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame de Strasbourg

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff – Summer, or Allegory of Five Senses (1633)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Two different mirrors of Sebastian Stoskopff (1597 – 1657) – but both with the ‘doors’

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Sebastian Stoskopff also painted interesting goblets (potentially with the ‘mirror-eyes’)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn (1565 – 1620)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn - Toilette of Venus (1570)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn – An Allegory of Love and Fidelity with other Virtues and Vices

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Allegory of Love and Fidelity with other Virtues and Vices (Detail)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Allegory of Love and Fidelity with other Virtues and Vices (Detail - filter)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn – An Allegory of Music

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © What is the role of mirror? It indicates that the painting could well be The Five Senses

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens - Five Senses (Sight)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens - Five Senses (Sight) - detail

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens - Five Senses (Sight & Smell)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Elder & Peter Paul Rubens - Five Senses (Sight & Smell) - detail

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Younger - Allegory of Sight (Five Senses)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Younger - Allegory of Sight (Five Senses) - detail

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pieter Bruegel the Younger - Allegory of Sight (Five Senses) - detail

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hendrik Goltzius (1558 – 1617)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hendrik Goltzius - Allegory of Sight (1598)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacob Matham – The five senses (1588)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacob Matham - The Seven Virtues (1598)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacob Matham – Prudence (after Hendrik Goltzius)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Jacob Matham - Superbia (1595)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hendrik Goltzius – Five Senses (Sight)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hendrik Goltzius – Five Senses (Hearing, Touch, Taste, Smell)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Hendrik Goltzius – Five Senses (Sight) - reversed

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Anonymous master - Sight

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Pietro Paolini - Allegory of the Five Senses (c.1630)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Adriaen Collaert- Allegory of the Five Senses (Sight)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Adriaen Collaert- Allegory of the Five Senses (Smell, Hearing, Touch, Taste)

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Five Senses: Before * After

art  mirrors  art    2014  © © Five Senses – Evolution of (Perception) of Ideas

art  mirrors  art    2014  © ©