Portraits de l'artiste en singe. Les Singeries dans la peinture. Copte Athens and the West: The

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and flower paintings influenced by Impressionism

which allows for transdisciplinary connections between works from around the world

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Portraits de l'artiste en singe. Les Singeries dans la peinture. Copte Athens and the West: TheIn the usual bestiary of Western painters, the monkey occupies a special place independent of animal art and naturalist study. As a pantomime of human behavior, the animal represents a long iconographic tradition laden with metaphorical meanings. The monkey is the failed image of man, his caricature. By his indecent resemblance, by his attitudes, his gestures, his grimaces and especially his gift of imitation, the animal is naturally comical. The