AUDENARDE Very original and rare Oudenaarde... - Lot 30 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr

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AUDENARDE Very original and rare Oudenaarde... - Lot 30 - FEE - Stanislas Machoïr
AUDENARDE Very original and rare Oudenaarde Tapestry (Flanders). Beginning of the 17th century. Method of hunting monkeys According to the symbolism, taken from the Gospel of John 9:1-41: the blind man Born Wool and silk. Nice freshness of colours. Weaving in the borders in the 19th century. Sowing border of sheaves of foliage and ribboned flowers, basins of fruit, birds and flowering plants. Ht. 310cm - Width 240cm History: According to the symbolism of the Gospel of John 9-4-41 the blind man was born. The monkey representing evil, imitating man and imitating the blind. The resemblance of monkeys to man has long been intriguing. Aristotle addresses it in his history of animals. Pliny the Elder (23-79) addresses it in his natural history, the monkeys of Wisdom including the blind. The oldest trace of them can be found in the talks of Confucius (6th century BC) and they were introduced into Buddhism by a monk (Xuanzang) in the 7th century AD. The description of the scene of this tapestry is manifest in the Natural History of BUFFON (Volume II, p. 267). Buffon, writing in the 18th century, took up this method and technique of hunting monkeys from an older work and having probably studied the work of Jakob de Bondt on monkeys and orang-utans. Charles Perrault was probably influenced by this cardboard to write the tale: the boots of seven leagues. Documentation : -Amandine GAUDRON. The medieval monkey. Story of an ambiguous animal: knowledge, symbols and representations. -Michèle ROSELLINI. The monkeys of the Fountain.
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