Chardin worked very slowly and he only painted slightly more than 200 pictures ( about four a year ) total.

A funeral monument to Chardin exists in Westminster Abbey, bearing the inscription Sir John Chardin — nomen sibi fecit eundo (" he made a name for himself by travelling ").

The ornate silver tureens of that period figure in buffets — still life of silver and game — by artists such as Alexandre-François Desportes, or in more modest still life, such as the painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( illustration ), which is dated 1728 but depicts a silver tureen of Baroque form of the first decade of the century.

He would spend his free hours visiting galleries and salons, especially the Louvre, where he would study the works of Rembrandt, the Le Nain brothers, Chardin, van Gogh, Renoir, Pissarro, Matisse, Gauguin, Courbet, Millet, Manet, Monet, Delacroix, and others.

Louis le Nain was an important exponent of genre painting in 17th-century France, where the 18th century would bring a heightened interest in the depiction of everyday life, whether through the romanticized paintings of Watteau and Fragonard, or the careful realism of Chardin.

He was one of Henri Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student Matisse made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

Chaim Soutine's still lifes looked to Chardin for inspiration, as did the paintings of Georges Braque, and later, Giorgio Morandi.

Chardin was one of Matisse's most admired painters ; as an art student he made copies of four Chardin paintings in the Louvre.

Jean-Baptiste Chardin ’ s still life paintings employ a variety of techniques from Dutch-style realism to softer harmonies.

Finally, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin was able to create still life paintings that were considered to have the charm and beauty as to be placed alongside the best allegorical subjects.

It also has fine paintings by Rembrandt, Titian, and Chardin.

The visual arts of the 18th century were highly decorative and oriented toward giving pleasure, as exemplified by the Regency Style and Louis XV Style, and the paintings of François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Watteau and Chardin, and portrait painters Quentin de La Tour, Nattier and Van Loo.

Chardin found, however, that his Protestant faith cut him off from all hope of honors or advancement in his native France, and so he set out again for Persia in August 1671.

Lépicié and P .- L. Sugurue ), which brought Chardin income in the form of " what would now be called royalties ".

Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.

Peto's mature works have an opaque and powdery texture which is often compared to Chardin.

Omega Point is a term coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ( 1881 – 1955 ) to describe a maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving.

After a successful journey, during which he had received the patronage of the Safavid monarch Shah Abbas II, who died in 1666 and his son Safi Mirza succeeded him first as Shah Safi II then as Shah Suleiman I. Chardin returned to France in 1670.

One of the first major perspectives of Boulding's evolutionary perspective was his emphasis on know-how or, to use the term of Vladimir Vernadsky ( 1926 ) and Teilhard de Chardin ( 1959 ), which Boulding used as well, the " Noosphere.

The impact of Jean Chardin ’ s Voyages en Perse, to which he owes most of his information about Persia – which is far from superficial – must of course be recognized ; he owned the two-volume edition of 1687 and purchased the extended edition in ten volumes in 1720.

Phillips collected works by masters such as El Greco, calling him the " first impassioned expressionist "; Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin because he was " the first modern painter "; Francisco Goya because he was " the stepping stone between the Old Masters and the Great Moderns like Cézanne "; and Edouard Manet, a " significant link in a chain which began with Goya and which to Gauguin and Matisse ".

Chardin and Renouard, which induced the Convention to protect books adorned with the coats of arms of their former owners and other treasures from destruction at the hands of the revolutionists.

Housed at his homes in the Netherlands and France, Mannheimer's art ( which included works by Chardin, Fragonard, Watteau, and Rubens, at least one fake Vermeer, gold reliquary busts, tapestries, Meissen porcelain, and Judaica, including a naturalistic circa-1800 Hanukkah lamp known as the " Oak Tree Menorah ") and his collection of 18th-century furniture ( much of it acquired for him by the American decorator Elsie de Wolfe and the Paris decorator Stéphane Boudin ) were seized by the bank.

individuals whom he trusted and considered worthy of support ... His personal support of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin during the last years of the life of this eccentric genius is but one outstanding example ... He leaves behind him the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research which he built, an international host of friends whom he helped, and a wife whom he cherished and appreciated.

While there are process theologies that are similar, but unrelated to the work of Whitehead ( such as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ) the term is generally applied to the Whiteheadian / Hartshornean school.

Both Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1699 – 1779 ) and Jean-Baptiste Greuze ( 1725 – 1805 ), were important French painters of the Rococo era who are considered Anti-Rococo.

* The works of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin are denounced by the Roman Catholic Church.

Much of the appeal of the series stems from its extensive use of references and allusions from a wide array of thinkers such as Teilhard de Chardin, John Muir, Norbert Wiener, and to the poetry of John Keats, a famous English Romantic poet of the 19th century, Norse Mythology, and the monk Ummon ; a large number of technological elements are acknowledged by Simmons to be inspired by elements of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World.

These ideas of Living Ethics are close to the program of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Some examples of this are Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin ’ s “ Grace at Table ” and “ Paul Revere ”.

This view has certain similarities to the concepts of Christogenesis advocated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 2 November 1699 – 6 December 1779 ) was an 18th-century French painter.

Chardin was born in Paris, the son of a cabinetmaker, and rarely left the city.

Chardin entered into a marriage contract with Marguerite Saintard in 1723, whom he did not marry until 1731.

Beginning in 1737 Chardin exhibited regularly at the Salon.

In 1752 Chardin was granted a pension of 500 livres by Louis XV.

By 1770 Chardin was the ' Premier peintre du roi ', and his pension of 1, 400 livres was the highest in the Academy.

Beginning with The Governess ( 1739, in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ), Chardin shifted his attention from working-class subjects to slightly more spacious scenes of bourgeoise life.

* ArtCyclopedia: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin.

* Rosenberg, Pierre ( 2000 ), Chardin.

* Rosenberg, Pierre, and Florence Bruyant ( 2000 ), Chardin.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a paleontologist and geologist, believed that evolution unfolded from cell to organism to planet to solar system and ultimately the whole universe, as we humans see it from our limited perspective.

* Ruth Gordon as Dame Marjorie “ Maude ” Chardin, a 79-year-old free spirit who wears her hair in braids across her head like laurels.

The 583-item Collection La Caze donated in 1869, included works by Chardin ; Fragonard ; Rembrandt – such as Bathsheba at Her Bath – and Gilles by Watteau.

In 2007, this bequest was the topic of the exhibition " 1869: Watteau, Chardin ... entrent au Louvre.

* 1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter ( d. 1779 )

It was introduced by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1922 in his Cosmogenesis.

* 1643 – Jean Chardin, French explorer ( d. 1703 )

Image: Chardin_pastel_selfportrait. jpg | Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin.