Jean-Étienne Liotard (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ etjɛn ljɔtaʁ]; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Genevan [1] painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his detailed, strikingly naturalistic portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey.

Jean-François Lyotard (/ liːoʊˈtɑːr /; French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa ljɔtaʁ]; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) [5] was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist.

Sep 21, 2018 · Jean-François Lyotard (1924–1998) was a French philosopher whose best known work—often to his chagrin—was his 1979 The Postmodern Condition.

Jean-Étienne Liotard (French pronunciation: [ʒan‿etjɛn ljɔtaʁ]; 22 December 1702 – 12 June 1789) was a Swiss painter, art connoisseur and dealer. He is best known for his portraits in pastel, and for the works from his stay in Turkey.

Jean-François Lyotard (born August 10, 1924, Versailles, France—died April 21, 1998, Paris) was a French philosopher and leading figure in the intellectual movement known as postmodernism. As a youth, Lyotard considered becoming a monk, a painter, and a historian.

The Chocolate Girl (French: La Belle Chocolatière, German: Das Schokoladenmädchen) is one of the most prominent pastels of the Genevan artist Jean-Étienne Liotard, showing a maid serving drinking chocolate. It is now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany.

Jan 18, 2024 · Jean-Étienne Liotard first trained as a miniature painter in Geneva, where he mastered the extraordinary fineness of application that was to be the hallmark of his pastel style. While in his twenties he sought his fortune in Paris, where he studied in a …

Jean-Étienne Liotard (born Dec. 22, 1702, Geneva—died June 12, 1789, Geneva) was a Swiss painter noted for his pastel portraits. After studying in Paris, Liotard was taken to Naples by a patron and went to Rome in 1735 to paint the portraits of Pope Clement XII and several cardinals.

Oct 18, 2015 · Who was Jean-Etienne Liotard? We introduce one of the most idiosyncratic figures of the 18th century, a master portrait-painter whose works are characterised by their warts-and-all realism and technical virtuosity.

French post-structuralist philosopher, best known for his highly influential formulation of postmodernism in The Postmodern Condition. Despite its popularity, however, this book is in fact one of his more minor works.