"aesthetic norms, while ""The Age of Bronze"" rejects contemporary mechanisms of physical expression. This absence of artifice, like the nudity of ""The Thinker"" or ""Adam and Eve"" guarantees the timelessness of Rodin's works. The artist also stands out by the monumental aspect of some of his works: ""Balzac"", ""The Burghers of Calais"" or the impressive, unfinished ""The Gates of Hell,"" which contains many elements representing the major works of Rodin (""The Thinker, Ugolino, The Kiss"" or ""the Three Shades""). The graphic collection at the Musée Rodin contains around 7,000 drawings. They can be associated with different styles and periods: observation"
"backlash against the rejection along with a petition signed by supporters in the artistic community proceeded, yet in the end, Rodin decidedly declined any bids for the work and placed the plaster artwork in his home at Meudon. Monument to Balzac Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. The work was commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres, a full-size plaster model was displayed in 1898 at a Salon in Champ"
"first conceived the figure as part of his work ""The Gates of Hell"" commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not appear until 1904. ""The Thinker"" was initially named The Poet (), and was part of a large commission begun in 1880 for a doorway surround called ""The Gates of Hell"". Rodin based this on ""The Divine Comedy"" of Dante Alighieri, and most of the figures in the work represented the main characters in the poem with ""The Thinker"" at the center of the composition over the doorway and about larger than most of"
"the other figures. Some critics believe that it was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. Other critics reject that theory, pointing out that the figure is naked while Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the sculpture's physique does not correspond to Dante's effete figure. The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. This detail from the ""Gates of Hell"" was first named ""The Thinker"" by foundry workers, who noted its similarity to Michelangelo's statue of"
"The Thinker The Thinker () is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work shows a nude male figure of over life-size sitting on a rock with his chin resting on one hand as though deep in thought, often used as an image to represent philosophy. There are about 28 full-sized castings, in which the figure is about 186cm high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and under his supervision. There are various other versions, as well, several in plaster, and studies and posthumous castings exist in a range of sizes. Rodin"
"The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) The Kiss () is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal ""The Gates of Hell"", commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the ""Gates"" and replaced with another pair of lovers located on the smaller right-hand column. The sculpture, ""The Kiss"", was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's ""Inferno"" (Circle 2, Canto 5) who"
"the entry courtyard. Visitors once entered through a cast of ""The Gates of Hell"", located at the main entrance to the museum, which is no longer used. This massive 5.5-m-tall bronze doorway was originally created for the Museum of Decorative Arts (which was to have been located in Paris but never came into existence). Rodin sculpted more than 100 figures for these doors from 1880 until his death in 1917. This casting is one of the three originals; several others have been made since. Several of his most famous works, including ""The Thinker"", are actually studies for these doors which"
"at the same time, since Zeus arranges that during the day he is with Venus and at night with Persephone. The other work with which Rodin completes the Greek myth of Adonis, is The Awakening of Adonis. The Death of Adonis (Rodin) The Death of Adonis is a white marble sculpture. It was created by Auguste Rodin and signed “A RODIN” on the base. It shows Aphrodite mourning over the body of Adonis. The main version is in the Musée Rodin and another is in the Museo Soumaya. As Rodin's fame grew during the 1880s, the demand for his work"
"the title ""The Master Sculptor Rodin in İstanbul"", featuring selected artworks by the great master of the art of sculpture. 203 artpieces were on display from June 13, 2006 to September 3, 2006, which were loaned from the Musée Rodin in Paris, France. The show hosted Rodin's masterworks as ""The Thinker"", ""The Kiss"", ""The Burghers of Calais"", ""The Monument to Balzac"", ""The Walking Man"", statues derived from the famous ""The Gates of Hell"" composition and nearly a hundred other sculptures in marble, bronze and plaster as well as 58 drawings, 23 archival photographs and 19 antique-style statues from Rodin's private"
"Monument to Balzac Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray the writer's persona rather than a physical likeness. The work was commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres, a full-size plaster model was displayed in 1898 at a Salon in Champ de Mars. After coming under criticism the model was rejected by the société and Rodin moved it to his home in Meudon. On July 2, 1939 (22 years after the sculptor's death) the model was cast in bronze"
"simply showing the figure's facial expression. Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be"
"The Death of Adonis (Rodin) The Death of Adonis is a white marble sculpture. It was created by Auguste Rodin and signed “A RODIN” on the base. It shows Aphrodite mourning over the body of Adonis. The main version is in the Musée Rodin and another is in the Museo Soumaya. As Rodin's fame grew during the 1880s, the demand for his work increased, so many of his works, which were originally created in a smaller format, began to come out of his studio, which had already grown considerably. Some of these pieces were finished compositions, based on the coupling"
"Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be more disperse, grandiose and mysterious than"
"The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as ""Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle"" or ""Le Rêve"" ) is an 1880 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It was first exhibited at his fourteenth exhibition, hosted by the National Society Salon. One of the marble versions of the work is now in the museo Soumaya in Mexico City. It shows a winged man above a young woman, who tries not to return his kiss. The work shows Rodin's admiration for Michelangelo's treatment of the human form and draws on"
"""The Divine Comedy"" as well as the story of Orpheus and descriptions of the underworld by Hesiod. He also particularly drew on lines 25-30 and 39-40 in ""The Horseman"", poem 23 in the 1861 edition of Charles Baudelaire's ""Les Fleurs du Mal"": Rodin reused the figure of the woman in several other variants such as the ""Torso of Adele"", ""Eternal Springtime"", ""Paolo and Francesca"" and ""The Kiss"". The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (known by the artist as ""Le baiser du fantôme et la demoiselle"" or ""Le Rêve"" ) is an 1880 sculpture by"
"Auguste Rodin François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin (; ), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. Many of his most notable sculptures were criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with predominant figurative"
"Rodin's pupil and lover, the graceful ease of this piece made it one of the ""happiest"" ones of the artist. ""Standing Mercury"" was also used by Rodin as inspiration for his ""Study of Apollo"", one of the pieces on the base of the monument to Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, former Argentinean president. Standing Mercury Standing Mercury is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, first exhibited in 1888. Rodin depicts the mythological god Mercury, son of Maia and Jupiter—messenger of the gods and guide to the Underworld—as a young man, representing eloquence and reason. This depiction is opposite to the"
"of Art. He later removed the figure's head to produce ""Flying Figure"" (c.1890) - a cast of this is now also in the Metropolitan. The Martyr (sculpture) The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin. It is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work ""The Gates of Hell"", though he later removed the corresponding figure from ""Gates"". The figure currently is held by It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age,"
"Meditation (sculpture) Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's ""The Gates of Hell"", with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell. The figure was also used in Rodin's ""Monument to Victor Hugo"", representing one of the poet's muses. For ""Gates"" Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an independent work"
"in 1896. Meditation (sculpture) Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's ""The Gates of Hell"", with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell. The figure was also used in Rodin's ""Monument to Victor Hugo"", representing one of the poet's muses. For ""Gates"" Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an"
"in the Luxembourg Museum and are now in the Musée d'Orsay. His more important monuments are those to Admiral Courbet (1890) at Abbeville and the famous Joan of Arc. Other works include ""Eve"" (1880), ""Diana"" (1882 and 1891), ""Woman and Peacock"" (a. k. a. ""Juno and The Peacock""), and ""The Poet"", astride his Pegasus spreading wings for flight. He sculpted ""The Dancer"", based on Cléo de Mérode which today is also in the Musée d'Orsay. In 1870 he helped create the snow sculpture, ""La statue de la Résistance"". To these works should be added his monuments to Cardinal Lavigerie and"
"Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of Hell"", one of the representations of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta, but did not include it there because the happiness expressed by the lovers did not seem appropriate to the theme. ""The Kiss"", another famous sculpture by the artist, shares the same origin, but unlike ""The"
"some of his sculpture, such as ""The Walking Man"", influenced the increasingly abstract sculptural forms of the 20th century. Rodin restored an ancient role of sculpture – to capture the physical and intellectual force of the human subject – and he freed sculpture from the repetition of traditional patterns, providing the foundation for greater experimentation in the 20th century. His popularity is ascribed to his emotion-laden representations of ordinary men and women – to his ability to find the beauty and pathos in the human animal. His most popular works, such as ""The Kiss"" and ""The Thinker"", are widely used"
"Head of Saint John the Baptist (Auguste Rodin) Head of Saint John the Baptist is a marble sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, sculpted in 1887 as part of a series of sculptures based on his ""Saint John the Baptist"", exhibited for the first time in 1880 with great acceptance and recognition from critics. In this sculpture, Rodin decides not to present the fragment as a bust, the most obvious choice, but to set the head on its side on a baptismal font in order to establish a greater reference to the biblical account of John the Baptist and to"
"with paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that he had acquired) to the French State on the condition that they turn the buildings into a museum dedicated to his works. The Musée Rodin contains most of Rodin's significant creations, including ""The Thinker"", ""The Kiss"", and ""The Gates of Hell"". Many of his sculptures are displayed in the museum's extensive garden. The museum includes a room dedicated to the works of Camille Claudel. The museum is one of the most accessible museums in Paris. It is located near a Metro stop, Varenne, in a central neighborhood, and"
"I am beautiful (Auguste Rodin) I am beautiful, also known as The Abduction, is an 1882 sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, inspired in a fragment from Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems ""Les Fleurs du mal"". The sculpture appears in ""The Gates of Hell"", specifically in the right pilaster, made from joining ""Crouching Woman"" and ""The Falling Man"". This group shows the woman with her back to the audience, in a round-like shape, and the man holding her in a manner reminiscent of the mythological deity Atlas. In this and several other pieces, Rodin wants to express a morbid and"
"The Martyr (sculpture) The Martyr or The Little Martyr is a c.1885 plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping female figure by Auguste Rodin, now in the Musee Rodin. It is a study for a figure in the top left of Rodin's major work ""The Gates of Hell"", though he later removed the corresponding figure from ""Gates"". The figure currently is held by It was originally exhibited at the Exposition Universelle, representing the Bronze Age, and is now in the Musée Rodin in Paris. There is an enlarged blackened bronze cast of the work now in The Metropolitan Museum"
"Bust of Maurice Haquette The Bust of Maurice Haquette is an 1883 bronze sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, measuring 53.5 by 26.7 by 41.1 cm. Haquette taught painting and watercolour at the Sèvres factory, where he became friends with Rodin. When Rodin exhibited ""The Age of Bronze"" at the Paris Salon of 1877, it was seen as so realistic that some accused him of moulding directly from the human body. Haquette defended Rodin against these allegations just after the latter's arrival in Brussels. Around this time, France's Ministry of Public Education and Arts was planning to build a"
"three Rodin sculptures in the garden; the other two are ""Cybele"" (1890/1904) and ""The Walking Man"" (1877–1878). ""Spirit of Eternal Repose"" is on long-term loan from Iris Cantor and the Cantor Foundation on behalf of B. Gerald Cantor. The Spirit of Eternal Repose The Spirit of Eternal Repose () is an outdoor 1898–1899 bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, installed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, in the U.S. state of Texas. Auguste Rodin's ""Spirit of Eternal Repose"" (1898–1899) depicts a sprite. The ""Houston Press"" called the work ""curious, since the"
"and pointed as the early versions of Babrius and Phaedrus and certainly contributed to the story's popularity. A century after its publication, this was the tale with which the sculptor Pierre Julien chose to associate its creator in his statue of La Fontaine (commissioned in 1782), now in the Louvre. The poet is represented in a famous episode of his life, when he was seen one morning by the Duchess of Bouillon seated against a tree trunk meditating. When she passed the same spot that evening he was still there in exactly the same position. Julien has portrayed him in"
"outside the fine arts as symbols of human emotion and character. To honor Rodin's artistic legacy, the Google search engine homepage displayed a Google Doodle featuring ""The Thinker"" to celebrate his 172nd birthday on 12 November 2012. Rodin had enormous artistic influence. A whole generation of sculptors studied in his workshop. These include Gutzon Borglum, Antoine Bourdelle, Constantin Brancusi, Camille Claudel, Charles Despiau, Malvina Hoffman, Carl Milles, François Pompon, Rodo, Gustav Vigeland, and Clara Westhoff, even though Brancusi later rejected his legacy. Rodin also promoted the work of other sculptors, including Aristide Maillol and Ivan Meštrović whom Rodin once called"
"""the greatest phenomenon amongst sculptors."" Other sculptors whose work has been described as owing to Rodin include Joseph Csaky, Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Bernard, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Georg Kolbe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Jacques Lipchitz, Pablo Picasso, Adolfo Wildt, and Ossip Zadkine. Henry Moore acknowledged Rodin's seminal influence on his work. Several films have been made featuring Rodin as a prominent character or presence. These include ""Camille Claudel"", a 1988 film in which Gérard Depardieu portrays Rodin, ""Camille Claudel 1915"" from 2013, and ""Rodin"", a 2017 film starring Vincent Lindon as Rodin. In 2011 the world premiere of Boris Eifman's new ballet ""Rodin"" took"
"or ""Little Eve"", whose original is also in the Musée Rodin in Paris). He also reused the same figure of Eve in his marble ""Eve and the Serpent"" (1901) and his plaster ""Adam and Eve"" (1884). Eve (Rodin) Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It shows Eve despairing after the Fall. In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to produce ""The Gates of Hell"", for which he exhibited ""Adam"" at the 1881 Paris Salon. In a sketch for ""Gates"" Rodin showed a central silhouette possibly intended as Eve (both the sketch and ""Gates"" are now in the"