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ape players iconography
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Apes and monkeys, (there was no distinction between the two), were depicted playing the pipe and tabor from the earliest images onwards. These, and imaginative hybrid animals (also known as grotesques), were gentle satires depicting monkeys 'aping' many traits in human nature, the good and not-so-good. |
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11th century stone carving, horn and tabor Cambodia | 13th/14th century Flemish manuscript f150r | 13th/14th century Flemish manuscript 131r | ||||
c 1300 |
c.1310 wood carving Cologne Cathedral, Germany |
1320's France, Book of Hours |
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1340 manuscript Bible, Naples, Italy 152r | 1338-44 manuscript Flanders, Belgium 20v | medieval unknown | ||||
Holdenby, Northamptonshire, England, broken pipe, 14th century | 1425-50 enamelled glass goblet, Belgium | 15th century misericord, Germany | ||||
mid 15thc manuscript, England |
print |
1470 manuscript Bruges, Belgium |
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1470-90 print Italy | 1475-1500 Paris, France | c1480 manuscript France | ||||
possible medieval player |
unknown manuscript | |||||
1498
Chambéry, France
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reproduced in The ‘Biographical Decameron; or, Ten days pleasant discourse upon illuminated manuscripts, and subjects connected with early engraving, typography, and bibliography’ by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1817 |
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15th century wood carving, Andora | 1509 manuscript |
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1520-30 manuscript, England |
1531-48, carved wood, Belgium |
16th century manuscript |
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16th century Bramall Hall, Greater Manchester,wall painting | unknown date misericord Museum - Sant Joan de les Abadesses,, Catalonia, Spain "Flutet with holes distributed over the body of the instrument. The tabor is held by a rope tied around the animal's left wrist, allowing it to have its right hand free to play with the wand.” |
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1610 print |
wall painting, France |
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1737 painting on wood, France |
1730 satire England |
1771 satirical print, England |
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18th century France |
1742 original drawing France |
1760 marquetry table France |
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1960's copy on canvas |
18th century painting | |||||
1880 painted glass panel, England | USA statuette |
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France |
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2023 wall painting by Pascal Amblard, France |
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