Singerie
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Singerie is the name given to a visual arts genre depicting monkeys imitating human behavior, often fashionably attired, intended as a diverting sight, using satire. The term is derived from the Frenc
Barbershop with monkeys and cats, Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century
A copy of The Monkey Sculptor, by Antoine Watteau, c. 1710
The art experts by Emmanuel Noterman
Two Monkeys (Bruegel)
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Two Monkeys or Two Chained Monkeys is a 1562 painting by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The work is now in the Gemäldegalerie of the Berlin State Museums.
Singerie
…independent theme around 1575 in a series of prints, which are strongly embedded in the artistic tradition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, whose small 1562 Two Monkeys was a predecessor. The main precursors to the Singeries are earlier depictions of a sleeping man being robbed by several monkeys, often portrayed as a…
Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 095
Wierix, Johannes Portrait of Pieter Brueghel 1572 RP P 1907 593 cropped