Item Number: 109824 Title: CHARDIN : Il pittore del silenzio Author: Guidi, Barbara ; Giovanni Sassu, Chiara Vorrasi Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788889793107 Description: Ferrara: Ferrara Arte, 2010. 31cm., hardcover, 239pp. illus., 67 color plates. Italian text. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: The first exhibiition of Chardin in Italy. Chardin played a leading role in one of the most interesting periods of European art history, becoming one of the truly influential artists for modern and contemporary masters. While admired by many, it was Van Gogh who described him "as great as Rembrandt." While Eighteenth Century France was busily engrossed in the luxurious life of the court and its fêtes galantes, fashioning a lifestyle from the ephemeral, Jean Siméon Chardin (1699-1779) was describing another reality. A contemplative and careful painter, he created the least "Parisian" canvases of century by painting silence: a silence which pervaded both his still lifes, picturing common domestic utensils arranged on rustic tables, and his interiors, in which the domestic servants and the offspring of the French bourgeois are shown thoughtfully going about their daily activities. While Chardin rejected the ornamental, his pictures are nonetheless sophisticated in quality; poems of daily life, a means of exalting the mannerisms of common people and thereby transforming them into the great protagonists of their era. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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