Hearing
Michaelina Wautier·1650
Historical Context
Hearing, from a series depicting the five senses, shows Wautier working in the allegorical genre that was popular in Flemish painting. The five senses series was a standard subject allowing artists to combine figure painting with symbolic objects representing each sense. Wautier's five senses series is among the most ambitious programmatic undertakings by any woman artist of the seventeenth century. Working in Brussels, she produced large-scale allegorical paintings that rival her male contem...
Technical Analysis
The figure and symbolic attributes are rendered with rich color and solid modeling, the composition balancing allegorical meaning with naturalistic observation.
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