Chardin
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, the quiet genius of eighteenth-century French painting, is brought into vivid focus in this authoritative biographical and critical study, translated from the French by Helga Harrison. Pierre Rosenberg, one of the foremost authorities on French Old Masters and a former president-director of the Louvre, presents a meticulous examination of Chardin's life and oeuvre — from his humble Parisian origins to his celebrated mastery of still life and domestic genre scenes that captivated the salons of Enlightenment France. Rosenberg's scholarship is both rigorous and revelatory, arguing persuasively for Chardin's singular place in the Western canon as a painter of extraordinary stillness, intimacy, and technical refinement. Published by Skira, the legendary Swiss art publisher renowned for its sumptuous reproductions, this volume presents Chardin's work with the visual fidelity it deserves, illuminating the textures, tones, and quiet poetry of compositions that Diderot himself once called the finest in France. For anyone who has stood before a Chardin and felt inexplicably moved, this study offers the language to understand precisely why.
Author: Pierre Rosenberg
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, the quiet genius of eighteenth-century French painting, is brought into vivid focus in this authoritative biographical and critical study, translated from the French by Helga Harrison. Pierre Rosenberg, one of the foremost authorities on French Old Masters and a former president-director of the Louvre, presents a meticulous examination of Chardin's life and oeuvre — from his humble Parisian origins to his celebrated mastery of still life and domestic genre scenes that captivated the salons of Enlightenment France. Rosenberg's scholarship is both rigorous and revelatory, arguing persuasively for Chardin's singular place in the Western canon as a painter of extraordinary stillness, intimacy, and technical refinement. Published by Skira, the legendary Swiss art publisher renowned for its sumptuous reproductions, this volume presents Chardin's work with the visual fidelity it deserves, illuminating the textures, tones, and quiet poetry of compositions that Diderot himself once called the finest in France. For anyone who has stood before a Chardin and felt inexplicably moved, this study offers the language to understand precisely why.