Five Senses
A digital Exhibition
Sensoriality, Art and
Scenographic Culture
in the Early Modern Period
Festivals, ceremonies and spectacles between the 15th and 18th centuries involved all the arts and consciously attempted to stimulate all senses. In fact, the staging of such events required the creation of multisensory spaces.
What were the smells like at the celebrations?
What were the sounds during the festivities?
What did the delicacies served at banquets taste like?
How was the sense of touch involved?
What elements appealed to the eye?
Team
Curators of the exhibition
- Carmen González-Román (Universidad de Málaga)
- Concepción Lopezosa Aparicio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Rudi Risatti (Theatermuseum, Vienna)
Web Design
- Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Department Branding / Web
Contributions to the exhibition
- Carmen Abad Zardoya (Universidad de Zaragoza)
- Isabel María Alba Nieva (Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático, Málaga)
- Félix Díaz Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Cristina Fernandes (Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Pedro Flor (Universidade Aberta and Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Carmen González-Román (Universidad de Málaga)
- Miguel Hermoso Cuesta (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Concepción Lopezosa Aparicio (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Sara Mamone (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
- Daniel Ortiz Pradas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Ramón Pérez De Castro (Universidad de Valladolid)
- Giuseppina Raggi (Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra)
- Rudi Risatti (Theatermuseum, Vienna)
- Felipe Serrano Estrella (Universidad de Jaén)
- Andrea Sommer-Mathis (Institute for Culture Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
- Anna Maria Testaverde (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
- Susana Varela Flor (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Publication
Discover the scientific publication that accompanies this digital exhibition!
Shaping Our Future
This project is aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and aims to meet the following SDGs:

Quality of Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
The project is aimed at a very diverse audience, particularly through its creative and accessible storytelling. It enables a consciously playful dissemination of complex art and theatre historical content, and presents high-quality exhibits from prestigious international collections without access restrictions and without user costs.

Gender Equality
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
This goal is achieved through the composition of the project team, but also through the content of the exhibition, where there is space for the topic of diversity, for example, based on historical accounts in which the roles of women, men and other genders appear in equal status.

Responsible Consumption and Production
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
This goal is pursued and achieved through the purely digital character of the project, which allows access from anywhere in the world via the web. The production, which was carried out primarily through digital collaboration, was also based on the principle of sustainability with little or no consumption of material resources.

Peace, Justice & strong Institutions
Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
Our project brought together 14 institutions from six countries within and outside the European Union (Austria, Spain, Italy, Germany, Portugal and Great Britain). It is therefore a model of international cooperation in the field of scientific work and creative cultural communication. Based on its content, it also seeks to send a message of cosmopolitanism and peace in the present, for example by emphasizing phenomena of international cohesion and exchange in the context of festive events in the Early Modern Age.

Partnership for the goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Within the framework of this project, which was strongly supported by the Spanish Government, several research institutions have partnered with a major museum, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. With joint efforts of staff and budget, a digital exhibition project has been carried out that is freely accessible to users around the world.
Contact
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