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Chardin

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, (1699–1779), French painter noted for his still life works


Antonio López García

The Grapevine (1960) evokes Tiepolo's sunlight, The Quince Tree (1962) Chardin's dusky murk, and other paintings echo Old Masters from Dürer to Degas.

Functional neurological deficit

The importance of the sub-cortex in movement and its relatively recent evolution could be hypothesised as the structural flaw in the “animal who knows and knows that he knows.” Chardin Studies of functional symptoms in other higher mammals thus offer the possibility of further insight into what is a distressing and often long-term, though completely reversible condition.

Jean Armand Charlemagne

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.

Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc

An early champion of Chardin, his two letters on the Paris salons, of 1747 and 1753, are a guide to enlightened contemporary taste and the defense of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, which officiated at the Paris salons.

Le Bénédicité

To the bourgeois establishment, the works of Chardin now represented a salutary contrast to the decadent aristocratic flimsy of Watteau.

Pas de légumes

With the cast dressed as vegetables, Ashton’s choreography is described as "wittily graphic… at its best, the ballet shows the Chardinesque Ashton at work, making something out of nothing".

Thérèse Chardin

Chardin has worked for the international editions of Vogue, Elle, and Marie Claire, working with photographers such as Frank Horvat, Bob Richardson, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier and Sacha.


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