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August Rodin by Camille Claudel Notable works created by Auguste Rodin include the following, listed following the books Rodin, Vie et Oeuvre [ 1 ] and Rodin . [ 2 ]
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 ...
It was the freedom and creativity with which Rodin used these practices – along with his activation surfaces of sculptures through traces of his own touch and with his more open attitude toward bodily pose, sensual subject matter, and non-naturalistic surface – that marked Rodin's re-making of traditional 19th century sculptural techniques ...
The sculpture was cast on bronze with black, brown and green patina.It has a 12.5 x 15.1 x 15.3 cm (3.1 x 3.8 x 3.8 in) base, where Rodin's signature can be found. [4]Even though there is a clear influence by other works at the Louvre, this mask represents the fidelity on contours that is characteristic of Rodin, made clear in the profound wrinkles and severe facial expression.
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation. This universally recognized expression of ...
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.
Auguste Rodin lived from 1840 to 1917 and is celebrated as a pivotal figure for creating works that “altered the way traditional sculpture was perceived and set the stage for many modern ...
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-Seine.