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Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk. [4] He was largely self-educated, [5] and began to draw at age 10.
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.
Her research primarily centered on 19th-century French sculpture. Butler was the author, co-author and editor of a number of books and catalogues including Western Sculpture: Definitions of man (1975), Rodin in perspective (1980), Rodin’s monument to Victor Hugo (1988) and European sculpture of the nineteenth century (2000). [2]
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 Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures.
Rose Beuret (French pronunciation: [ʁoz bøʁɛ]; born Marie Rose Beuret; 9 June 1844 – 14 February 1917 [1]) was a French seamstress and laundress, known to have been one of the muses and, for 53 years, the companion of Auguste Rodin, whom she married just weeks before her death in 1917.
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.