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Fan account of Auguste Rodin, a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. b. 1840, d. 1917.
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The Cathedral https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4194/
Sixth casting, inventory No.1022 Throughout his career, Rodin created sculptures of the fragmented human body. He had an extraordinary ability to employ the power of gesture to convey deep emotions and used his skill to express these gestures in sculpture. Rodin had a lifelong fascination with cathedrals, and the shape of the converging hands here alludes to the pointed arches of a Gothic church. Besides expressing calmness, faith and protection, it is interesting that the linked hands presumably come from different bodies.
December 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11321/
Gift of Robert Allerton
December 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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The Age of Bronze https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1239/
standing male nude; represents man awakening to a fuller comprehension of his physical powers
December 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Envelope Addressed, in Rodin's Hand, to "Mademoiselle Jean Simpson" https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/115152
Envelope Addressed, in Rodin's Hand, to "Mademoiselle Jean Simpson"
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Monumental (Eustache de Saint-Pierre, monumental) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/115165
Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Monumental (Eustache de Saint-Pierre, monumental)
December 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Bust of Victor Hugo https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/bust-of-victor-hugo
Bust of Victor Hugo
December 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Burgher of Calais: The Man with the Key, Jean d'Aire https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230216
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
December 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Balzac http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rodin-balzac-n04589
Presented in memory of Lady Sadler by Sir Michael Sadler through the Art Fund 1931
December 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Pierre de Wiessant https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/15263/
Pierre de Wiessant
December 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Adam https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11320/
Auguste Rodin’s powerfully expressive figure of Adam was originally intended to be paired with a sculpture of Eve, flanking a sculptured bronze portal commissioned by the French government for the Musée de Arts Décoratifs, Paris. For this monumental undertaking, which he entitled The Gates of Hell, Rodin turned to past Italian masters. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1508–12) inspired the pose of Rodin’s subject. Rodin rotated Michelangelo’s reclining Adam and transferred the frescoed figure’s gesture of receiving life from God to the sculpture’s right arm. The exaggerated turn of Adam’s left arm comes from Michelangelo’s sculpture of the dead Christ in his Pietà (1548–55; Museo del Duomo, Florence). Rodin chose the portal’s theme from Dante’s fourteenth-century epic poem Inferno; here Adam’s agonized body strikingly conveys the sufferings caused by original sin. Although the museum building was never constructed and the portal was not completed as originally conceived, Rodin explored the expressive potential of the human body as few artists before him had dared. As independent statues, Adam and Eve are among the commission’s numerous progeny. Not until 1938 was the gate cast in bronze and placed at the entrance to the grounds of the Musée Rodin, Paris. Gift of Robert Allerton
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Domingo Sarmiento https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/domingo-sarmiento
Domingo Sarmiento
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Study for a Burgher of Calais (Pierre de Wiessant) https://collections.artsmia.org/art/11956/
study for the figure of Pierre de Wiessant; cast in the Alexis Rudier foundry, Paris Figure
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Suzon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112019
Suzon
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Bellona https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/bellona
Bellona
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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The Burghers of Calais https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-burghers-of-calais-1889
The Burghers of Calais
December 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Balzac in a Monk's Habit (Balzac en robe de moine) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111462
Balzac in a Monk's Habit (Balzac en robe de moine)
December 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Mask of Balzac Smiling http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81464
Gift of The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection
December 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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The Thinker https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-thinker-2
The Thinker
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Letter in Rodin's hand. Thank You Note to Mademoiselle Jean Simpson for the card she desinged https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/115150
Letter in Rodin's hand. Thank You Note to Mademoiselle Jean Simpson for the card she desinged
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Seated Nude, Head Bowed to the Front https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298080
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
December 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Helvetin portti (La Porte de l'Enfer) http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=B+I+142
Helvetin portti (La Porte de l'Enfer)
December 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Burgher of Calais: Eustache de Saint-Pierre https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/230007
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Ugolino, Torso of a Child (Ugolin, Torse d'un enfant) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111464
Ugolino, Torso of a Child (Ugolin, Torse d'un enfant)
December 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Study for Galatea https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/191846
Gift of Auguste Rodin, 1912
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Creation http://www.moma.org/collection/works/69283
Gift of Samuel A. Berger
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM