El Oído
1617-1618
Imagine a room so loud you can almost hear the painting! This Baroque masterpiece, created through a famous partnership between Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, personifies the sense of Hearing. Rubens handled the lush, fleshy figures of the woman and child in the center, while Brueghel obsessively detailed the surrounding chaos of lutes, violins, ticking clocks, and exotic parrots. It’s part of a series representing the five senses, originally commissioned for the Archdukes Albert and Isabella, and serves as a visual symphony of 17th-century wealth and curiosity.
Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid
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