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Sign in to savethumb|320px|Barbershop with monkeys and cats, Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century 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 French word for "Monkey Trick".
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thumb|320px|Barbershop with monkeys and cats, Abraham Teniers, mid-17th century 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 French word for "Monkey Trick".
Though it has a long history, the height of the genre was in the 18th century, in the Rococo.
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French
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England
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monkey
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International Standard Book Number
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satire
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder
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genre
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Rococo
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still life
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Jean-Antoine Watteau
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Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
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Jan Brueghel the Elder
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Jan Brueghel the Younger
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Edwin Landseer
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Château de Chantilly
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David Teniers the Younger
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Meissen porcelain
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André Charles Boulle
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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
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Bray
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