Michaelina Wautier, The Five Senses


This willfully forgotten Dutch artist explores how we experience the world around us during the time of the Scientific Revolution.

Michaelina Wautier, The Five Senses, series of five canvases (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, and Touch), 1650, oil on canvas, 68 x 58 cm or 70 x 61 cm (Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection, on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Cite this page as: Dr. Christopher D.M. Atkins and Dr. Beth Harris, "Michaelina Wautier, The Five Senses," in Smarthistory, December 8, 2022, accessed March 19, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/michaelina-wautier-the-five-senses/.