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Flowers and trees bloom in\u00a0Jan Brueghel the Elder<\/a>\u2019s sumptuous garden, where peacocks and civets prowl the grounds as a child plucks a petal from its stem, inhaling the fragrance. Since the painting of\u00a0The Sense of Smell<\/em>\u00a0in the 17th century, viewers have said the scent of spring was so strongly suggested, it seemed to emanate from the canvas.<\/p>\n

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Now, visitors to the\u00a0Prado Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Madrid can literally inhale the scents of the Flemish Master\u2019s painting. For \u201cThe Essence of a Painting. An Olfactory Exhibition,\u201d Alejandro Vergara, the Prado\u2019s head curator of Flemish painting, enlisted a team of olfactory experts to re-create 10 elements from the scene.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Researchers identified in the painting some 80 plants and flowers, as well as animals with a strong sense of smell, such as the scent hound and guinea pig. They also spotted several objects related to perfumery, including scented gloves and vessels for distilling essences.<\/p>\n

Gregorio Sola, senior perfumer at Puig and an academician of the Perfume Academy, re-created 10 scents associated with the incredible array. Visitors can now sample the perfumes from four diffusers in Room 83 of the Prado.<\/p>\n

At the show, viewers will discover a bouquet of roses, jasmine, orange blossom, fig tree, and kid gloves scented with ambergris, based on a real formula from 1696. And while the smell of guinea pig was wisely left to the imagination, Puig\u2019s diffusers dispense the sharp musk of the civet which lies coiled in the bottom right of Brueghel\u2019s painting.<\/p>\n

Civet essence commonly used in historical perfumes given its longevity, however \u201cno animal has been harmed here,\u201d Sola explained in a video released by the museum. Instead, the perfumers used synthetic bases or the highest-quality natural essences.<\/p>\n

The Sense of Smell\u00a0<\/em>is part of a series of works about the five senses executed by Brueghel and his friend, the seminal Flemish painter\u00a0Peter Paul Rubens<\/a>, between 1617 and 1618. Ruben represented the five senses as allegorical female figures, while Brueghel contributed the lush settings.<\/p>\n

Sight<\/em>, for example, shows the sense allegorized as a young woman examining a painting of Christ restoring the vision of a blind man. That painting within a painting appears in a room packed with pictures, astronomical instruments, and other eye-catching curiosities.<\/p>\n

In the Prado\u2019s video accompanying the exhibition, Vergara explained that he hoped the olfactory exhibition would inspire viewers to seek out the other works in the series.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people come to see [this exhibition], they\u2019re going to be opening a window, a door, onto a different culture, for me as well actually. So, this something of a learning process, which is one of the most enjoyable things in life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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