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The Musée Rodin (English: Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. It has two sites: the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds in central Paris, as well as just outside Paris at Rodin's old home, the Villa des Brillants at Meudon , Hauts-de ...
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
Rodin: The B. Gerald Cantor Collection, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on The Gates of Hell Octave Mirbeau , "Auguste Rodin" . The Gates of Hell , Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University , Object Number 1985.86, bronze cast No. 5.
The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris. Opened in 1929, the museum is administered by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The museum houses a collection of nearly 150 objects containing bronzes, marbles, and plasters by ...
A commission to create a portal for Paris' planned Museum of Decorative Arts was awarded to Rodin in 1880. [17] Although the museum was never built, Rodin worked throughout his life on The Gates of Hell, a monumental sculptural group depicting scenes from Dante's Inferno in high relief. Often lacking a clear conception of his major works, Rodin ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 197 x 76 x 77 More images: Eve: 1881 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 173,5 x 66,5 x 75,5 More images: Crouching Woman: 1880 to 1882 Bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art 31.75 x 25.4 x 17.78 More images: Ugolino and His Sons: 1881 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 46.5 x 38.5 x 44.2 More images: Bust of Alphonse ...
The Three Shades (Les Trois Ombres) is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his The Gates of Hell. [1] [2] He made several individual studies for the Shades before finally deciding to put them together as three identical figures gathered around a central point. The heads hang low so that the neck and shoulders ...
Auguste Rodin rented several rooms on the ground floor in which to store his sculptures. The rooms became his studio; there he worked and entertained friends among the overgrown gardens. In 1909, Rodin, at the height of his fame, began to agitate for the Hôtel Biron to become a museum of his work.