Five Senses – Inner Surfaces

Mattia Preti (1613–1699): Two Allegories of the Senses

The Senses as a Subject When Gregorio and Mattia Preti painted their first Allegory of the Five Senses in Rome during the 1630s, they were taking up a subject with a long history. Sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch had been represented individually and in cycles since the Middle Ages, and by the sixteenth centuryContinue reading “Mattia Preti (1613–1699): Two Allegories of the Senses”