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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Doralynn Pines wrote: > > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > I, too, remembering seeing this image as a painting, not a sculpture. I've > looked through a few books in my home library, but couldn't find it. I sugges > you look at H.W. Janson's APES AND APE LORE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE > RENAISSANCE, London, 1952. It should be there. > > Doralynn Pines > The Metropolitan Museum of Art > New York, NY 10028 There is a sculpture -- a bit of kitsch that goes back to the mid 60's at least. The monkey, holding a human skull, is sitting on a stack of books that includes Darwin. I don't have any idea who the sculptor was, but I'd look in books on kitsch rather than Medieval art. It may have been a take-off on something earlier, however. Marjorie Chenoweth Library Director Maryland Institute, College of Art