Apes and ape lore in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

by H.W. Janson

Genres: History

384 pages, Unknown Binding

First published December 1, 1952

About the author

Horst Waldemar Janson, who published as H. W. Janson, was a Russian-American scholar of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has sold more than two million copies in fifteen languages.

Reviews

[a duck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Horst Woldemar Janson's (art historian, New York University) Apes and Ape-lore is a foundational text in the study of the symbolic significance of apes in medieval and early modern Europe. This text is incredibly detailed and rich with primary sources, presenting an in-depth timeline of the changing perceptions of monkeys, both real and imagined.