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The Sense of Hearing
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Woman as personification of the sense of hearing, sitting in a landscape with instruments, playing a lute while a noble deer lies next to her. In the background a scene from Genesis is depicted: Adam and Eve hide themselves from God out of shame. In the margin below two lines of Latin.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineZintuig gehoor. 1581 - 1656. Nicolaes de Bruyn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
