The Five Senses (pair of paintings) meal; a lutenist is playing and children singing, epitomising hearing, while one young woman strokes a mink in her arms, representing touch, and another is about to eat oysters, representing taste. Details such as the clavichord and other musical instruments on the left relate to hearing, and a monkey is pulling the hair of a Cupid, a form of touch. The room and the hall visible in the right rear display pictures which are also related to the three senses: "The Annunciation" and "Minerva's Visit to Parnassus" (hearing), "The Dentist" (touch), and "The Punishment of Rich Epulon" and "The Wedding
Catechism of the Catholic Church the four senses of Scripture, which encompass the literal sense and the three spiritual senses (allegorical, moral, and anagogical). The literal sense pertains to the meaning of the words themselves, including any figurative meanings. The spiritual senses pertain to the significance of the things (persons, places, objects or events) denoted by the words. Of the three spiritual senses, the allegorical sense is foundational. It relates persons, events, and institutions of earlier covenants to those of later covenants, and especially to the New Covenant. Building on the allegorical sense, the moral sense instructs in regard to action, and the anagogical sense