Depiction of Mirrors in the allegories of Five Senses: from Hendrik Goltzius and Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn via Rubens & Bruegel to Lubin Baugin and Sebastian Stoskopff. See also the blog post about these painters, and their mirrors: http://artmirrorsart.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/1251/

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Of the mirrors
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Lubin Baugin - Nature morte à l'echiquier {Still life with chess} (c.1640)
Currently in the Louvre Museu, where I’ve seen it.

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©©Allégorie des cinq sens

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©©Taste

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©©Touch & Hearing

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©©Smell & Vision – as a Mirror

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

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

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©©Jacques Linard – The Five Senses (1638)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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©©Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn (1565 – 1620)

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

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

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

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

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©©Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn – An Allegory of Music

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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©©Hendrik Goltzius (1558 – 1617)

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©©Hendrik Goltzius - Allegory of Sight (1598)

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©©Jacob Matham – The five senses (1588)

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©©Jacob Matham - The Seven Virtues (1598)

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©©Jacob Matham – Prudence (after Hendrik Goltzius)

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©©Jacob Matham - Superbia (1595)

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Hendrik Goltzius – Five Senses (Sight)

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

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©©Hendrik Goltzius – Five Senses (Sight) - reversed

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©©Anonymous master - Sight

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

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

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

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©©Five Senses: Before * After

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©©Five Senses – Evolution of (Perception) of Ideas

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