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François Auguste René Rodin ... Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family ... Several films have been made featuring Rodin as a prominent character or ...
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.
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 ...
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 ]
The Age of Bronze (French: L'âge d'airain) is a bronze statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9 cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modelled in 1876.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyPARIS—When a young soldier stripped down in a Belgian art studio in the late 19th century to model for a struggling sculptor named ...
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 ...
The Burghers of Calais (French: Les Bourgeois de Calais) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War , when Calais , a French port on the English Channel , surrendered to the English after an eleven-month siege.