Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 22nd Street Philadelphia, PA 19101-7646 215.763.8100 About the Rodin Museum Visitor Information Friends of the Rodin Museum at Philadelphia Museum of Art: Conservation of The Thinker Calders on the Parkway The Great French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) brought monumental public sculpture into the 20th century and established a new sculptural freedom which ...
Rodin, Auguste Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917). The French artist Auguste Rodin had a profound influence on 20th-century sculpture. His works are distinguished by their stunning strength and realism. Rodin refused to ignore the negative aspects of humanity, and his works confront distress and moral weakness as well as passion and beauty. Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin was born on Nov. 12, 1840, in Paris.
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The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin Index: Early Works | Burghers of Calais | Gates of Hell | Other - 1880s | Portraits | Late Works | WWW Links Click on thumbnail image or highlighted text for a larger picture. Photos by Prof. Jeffery Howe Early Works Man with broken nose Rose Beuret Age of Bronze, 1876 Age of Bronze, Orsay, Paris Age of Bronze, Middelheim, Antwerp Age of Bronze, 1876. Musee ...
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THE COLLECTIONS OF MEUDON Antoinette Le Normand-Romain Fragments ( abattis ) Photo : A. Rzepka The sculptures kept in the Museum at Meudon, only some of which are on display, form what is known as a studio collection , that is to say, all the sketches, studies, maquettes, variations and original models carefully kept by the artist thoughout his life and, in the case of Rodin, donated to the ...
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AROUND THE GATES OF HELL Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The Thinker The Thinker 1881 bronze 71, 5 x 40 x 58 cm S.788 Photo : A. Rzepka Of all the works by Rodin, the most famous one is unquestionably the great Thinker. It was modelled in 1880-1882 for The Gates of Hell, and exhibited in its original size (H. 71.5 cm) in Copenhagen in 1888. It was enlarged in 1902 and exhibited in this form at the ...
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Auguste Rodin images and biography Purchase a Rodin bronze for your own: click here! The Artchive needs EVERYONE to help! If you enjoy this site, please click here to find out how YOU can help to keep it online. Search artchive.com and wwar.com (1840-1917) VIEW IMAGE LIST See also: Sculptors It is true that Rodin's art makes overt reference to its own artificiality. When we say that his kind of ...
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IN SEARCH OF INDEPENDENCE Antoinette Le Normand-Romain Charles, Hippolyte Aubry Rodin working on the bust of Father Eymard 1863 carbon print 23 x 17, 5 cm Ph.161 In February 1871, after his laborious early years, demonstrated in the Rodin Museum by the busts of his father (1860) and Father Eymard (1863), the mask of The Man with a Broken Nose which was rejected by the Salon in 1865, Mignon which ...
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THE WALKING MAN Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The Walking Man 1900 - 1907 bronze 213, 5 x 71, 7 x 156, 5 cm S.998 Photo: A. Rzepka In 1877, Rodin removed the lance from The Age of Bronze without indicating the meaning of the raised arm, and in 1880, he took away the cross from Saint John the Baptist. In his search for perfection, he increasingly suppressed anything he felt was superfluous or which ...
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THE GATES OF HELL Antoinette Le Normand-Romain Not far from The Thinker stands Rodin's monumental masterpiece, The Gates of Hell, installed in the garden of the Museum in 1937. By a decree of 16 August 1880, Rodin received a commission from the Directorate of Fine Arts for a monumental door which was to be decorated with low reliefs inspired by The Divine Comedy of Dante. This door was intended ...
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THE MARBLE SCULPTURES Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The Hand of God 1896 marble carved by Soudbinine in 1902 94 x 82, 5 x 54, 9 cm S.988 Photo : E. & P. Hesmerg In 1890, several papers reported on a rather paradoxical artistic theory : Rodin claims that there is a statue in each block of marble. It is just a question of divining it and bringing it out by removing all that is excessive (Le Temps, ...
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THE MONUMENTS Antoinette Le Normand-Romain The bronze casts of the two principal monuments by Rodin, The Burghers of Calais and The Monument to Balzac, are exhibited in the garden of the H tel Biron. The Monument to the Burghers of Calais The Monument to the Burghers of Calais 1889 bronze 217 x 255 x 177 cm S.450 Photo : A. Rzepka In 1347, following a particularly long siege, the city of Calais ...
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Rodin, Auguste sculptor france 12 Nov 1840, Paris - 17 Nov 1917, Meudon Grave location: Meudon: Musee Rodin (Garden ) Auguste Rodin entered the Ecole Imperiale de Dessin, a goverment school, at fourteen. Afterwards he was refused three times at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1864 he met the seamstress 1864 and she became a companion for life and the mother of his only son. Rodin did decorative ...
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