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

John Chardin, a French traveler of 17th century, who had visited the Safavid Persia, has approved the vast cotton farms of Persia.

It has been suggested that Ibn Khaldun may have had an influence upon Montesquieu's theory through the traveller Jean Chardin, who travelled to Persia and described a theory resembling Ibn Khaldun's climatic theory.

" As a Westerner seeking to use Western concepts to communicate Buddhism, he has been compared to Teilhard de Chardin, termed " the founding father of Western Buddhism ," and noted as " a skilled innovator in his efforts to translate Buddhism to the West.

Her work reveals the clear influence of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, as well as 17th-century Dutch masters, whose work has been far more highly valued, but what made Vallayer-Coster ’ s style stand out against the other still life painters was her unique way of coalescing representational illusionism with decorative compositional structures.

The Alice Trust has also acquired works of art to complement the existing collections at Waddesdon, such as Le Faiseur de Châteaux de Cartes by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, added in 2007.

This tradition has reputedly inspired generations of mystical searchers from John Scotus Erigena, through Book of Taliesin, Nicholas of Cusa and St. John of the Cross to Teilhard de Chardin ( the latter two of whom may have been influenced by " The Cloud " itself ).

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

A member of the American Teilhard Association, he has written or edited several books on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, including Teilhard's Mysticism of Knowing ( 1981 ), Teilhard and the Unity of Knowledge ( 1983 ) Teilhard de Chardin ( 1988 ), The Letters of Teilhard de Chardin and Lucile Swan ( 1993 ) and Teilhard's Mass ( 2005 ).

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

However, aware of this hierarchy, Chardin began including figures in his work in about 1730, mainly women and children.

He credits the ideas of cosmologist Brian Swimme, Christian theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the early 20th century Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo as helping him form his thinking about the evolutionary context of the human experience.

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.

He also wrote The faith of men ; meditations inspired by Teilhard de Chardin ( Teilhard et la foi des homme ), about the French thinker Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

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.

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.

* Le Bénédicité (" Grace ") a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

Oil painting of a scullery maid by Jean-Siméon Chardin

The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns one of the masterpieces of Mannheimer's collection, " Young Man Blowing Bubbles " ( a. k. a. " Soap Bubbles "), a circa-1734 painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ; it was sold in 1949 to the museum by Wildenstein & Co., the art dealers, who had acquired the painting after it was repatriated to France in 1946.

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.

Other masterworks of northern European and French art include Frans Hals ’ portrait Dorothea Berck ( 1644 ), Rembrandt van Rijn ’ s painting of his son Titus ( 1660 ), Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin ’ s portrayal of a lovely maiden tossing a ball in The Game of Knucklebones ( c. 1734 ), and French court portraitist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun ’ s exotic Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin ( c. 1797 ).

The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, such as Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork.

The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, explored new and increasingly impressionist styles of painting with thick brushwork.

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

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

Jean Chardin ( 16 November 1643 – 5 January 1713 ), born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Persia and the Near East.

He was likened by academic theologians in one New York Times articleto the controversial and influential 20th century Jesuit priest, philosopher and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, particularly for his interpretations of issues such as the doctrine of original sin and the Cosmic Christ and for the resulting conflicts with church authorities.

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.

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

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.

Image: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 029. jpg | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, c. 1750

* Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin ( 1975 ), " Child with Top "

The second alternative is preferred by Christian theologians such as de Chardin who seek to reconcile Christian faith with belief in mechanistic evolution.

They also discount Christian faith positions, like those of French Jesuit priest, geologist and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who saw that his work with evolutionary sciences actually confirmed and inspired his faith in the cosmic Christ.

In 1945, he invited philosophers Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit inventor of the concept of the noosphere, and who wasn't in particularly good terms with the Roman Curia, and the Russian Nikolai Berdyaev at his home, but both men couldn't understand each other.

Image: Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin 029. jpg | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, c. 1750

Still life with brioche, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, 1763

But instead of settling down in the family profession, the young Chardin set out with a Lyon merchant named Antoine Raisin in 1664 for Persia and India, partly on business and partly to gratify his own wanderlust.

From 1920 to 1929 the Porters lived at 13 rue Monsieur, a house next door to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and with a garden adjoining the future residence of Nancy Mitford.

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 ".

* Teilhard de Chardin: Re-Mythologization. Three Papers ( 1970 ) with Robert V. Wilshire and J. V. Langmead Casserly

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.

: In spite of the close relationship of the Wittelsbach to France it is the second smallest section with works for example of Claude Lorrain (" The Expulsion of Hagar "), Nicolas Poussin (" Midas and Bacchus "), François Boucher (" Madame de Pompadour ") (" Reclining Girl "), Nicolas Lancret (" The Bird Cage "), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (" Woman Cleaning Turnips "), Maurice-Quentin de la Tour (" Mademoiselle Ferrand Meditating on Newton "), Claude Joseph Vernet (" Eastern Harbour at Dawn ") and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (" Girl with Dog ").

Just before and during the conciliar years, with the blessing of his order, de Lubac also began to write and publish books and articles in defense of the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, his older friend and fellow Jesuit, who had died in 1955.

After his return from Kashmir, he traveled around on his own, meeting with Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in Bengal and -- while preparing for a journey to Persia at Surat -- with Jean Chardin, that other great traveler in the Orient ( 1666 ).