The Senses (Rembrandt)

Get ready to meet a super cool set of paintings called 'The Senses'! A very talented artist named Rembrandt painted them a super long time ago, when he was only about 18 years old. That's like being in middle school!

These paintings are like a puzzle, showing us our five senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste. One of the taste paintings is missing, and the smell one was just found again recently! How exciting is that?

Rembrandt was so young when he made these paintings, they are his very first ones that we still have today! They are all the same size, like friends standing side-by-side. Later on, someone made them bigger, but only the smell painting still has those extra bits hidden.

It’s like finding a secret message! Imagine if your favorite drawings suddenly got bigger, but you could only see the original parts.

These paintings are special because they help us think about our amazing bodies. They show us how we experience the world! The paintings are like a treasure hunt for our senses.

One shows someone looking through spectacles (that's for sight!), another has singers (for hearing!), one shows a patient who can't smell (that's a bit sad, but important!), and another is about a stone operation (that’s for touch!).

Sometimes, art can go missing and then be found again, like a lost toy! One of the 'Senses' paintings, the one for taste, is still a mystery – nobody knows where it is! Another one, for smell, was lost for a very long time and only found again in 2015. It’s like a detective story for art lovers. Imagine if one of your favorite toys disappeared and then suddenly reappeared years later!