This set of paintings on the five senses (Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, Touch) was one of the most successful collaborations of Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel “the elder.” Rubens placed his figure [+]
Until now, this drawing has been dated in the 1630s, fundamentally because its subject matter can be related to the epidemics of cholera and leprosy that struck the city of Naples in those years. Styl [+]