As Johnston pointed out, all you have to do is contrast " A Game of Knucklebones " with Jean Marc Nattier's " Elisabeth Rigoley d'Ogny as Night " ( 1752 ), an effete, idealized portrait of a noblewoman, and you'll understand why there was a French revolution.
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Kumarajiva has sometimes been regarded by both the Chinese and by western scholars as abbreviating his translations, with later translators such as Xuanzang being regarded as being more " precise . " According to Jan Nattier, this is actually an erroneous and mistaken view, and the main difference was due to the earlier versions of Kumarajiva's source texts:
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In the 18th century we know of miniatures by Nicolas de Largilli�re, Fran�ois Boucher, Jean-Marc Nattier, and Jean-Germain Drouais; but the greatest names active in France are those of Peter Adolf Hall of Sweden, Napoleon and his court are exceedingly fine, and perhaps no other Frenchman painted miniatures so well as did Augustin.
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Carne and Prevert completed their last film together in 1946, " Les Portes de la Nuit " ( " The Gates of Night " ), a failure, some said, because it had been prepared for Jean Gabin and Marlene Dietrich and, instead, was made with Yves Montand, then new to movies, and Nathalie Nattier.
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Notably the museum displays works by Philippe de Champaigne, Pierre Mignard, Laurent de La Hyre, Charles Le Brun, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Nicolas de Largilli�re, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean Antoine Houdon, Jean Marc Nattier, Elisabeth Vig�e Le Brun, Hubert Robert, Thomas Lawrence, Jacques-Louis David, Antoine Jean Gros and also Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Jan Nattier states that while Buddhism has a notion of " relative eschatology " that refers to specific cycles of life, the term " Buddhist eschatology " does not relate to any " final things ", or that the world will end one day-Buddhist scripture routinely referring to the " beginningless SaC sra " as a never ending cycle of birth and death with no starting point.
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Jan Nattier states that while Buddhism has a notion of " relative eschatology " that refers to specific cycles of life, the term " Buddhist eschatology " does not relate to any " final things ", or that the world will end one day-Buddhist scripture routinely referring to the " beginning-less SaC sra " as a never ending cycle of birth and death with no starting point.
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Jan Nattier has noted that in some of the earliest Mahayana texts such as the " Ugraparip [ ccha Sktra " use the term " Mahayana ", yet there is no doctrinal difference between Mahayana in this context and the early schools, and that " Mahayana " referred rather to the rigorous emulation of Gautama Buddha in the path of a bodhisattva seeking to become a fully enlightened buddha.
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Jan Nattier has noted that in some of the earliest Mahyna texts such as the " Ugraparip [ ccha Sktra " use the term " Mahyna ", yet there is no doctrinal difference between Mahyna in this context and the early schools, and that " Mahyna " referred rather to the rigorous emulation of Gautama Buddha in the path of a bodhisattva seeking to become a fully enlightened buddha.
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The sitters portrayed include an imaginary diva by Fragonard; a trio of magistrates by Frans Pourbus the Younger, an import from Flanders ); a great heiress by Jean-Marc Nattier and a 28-year-old doctor _ by Eugene Delacroix, no less _ notable both for the subject's palpable intelligence and the contrast between the pristine white of his neckcloth and shining black silk of his waistcoat.
