The French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) conceived of his sculpture largely as volumes existing in space, as materials to be manipulated for a variety of surface effects. Thus he anticipated the ...
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Often compared with that great sculptor of the Renaissance, Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin was a towering figure of late-nineteenth-century art. His bronze images go far beyond mere surface detail; Rodin...
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Rodin's The Thinker has sat at the entrance to the Detroit Institute of Arts for decades, welcoming generations of visitors to one of the nation's largest fine arts museums.Now, for the first time ...
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Today is Saturday, Nov. 17, the 321st day of 2007. There are 44 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 17, 1800, Congress held its first session in Washington in the partially c...
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Berlin (dpa) - Peter Raue, Berlin's top arts lawyer and unofficial
culture impresario, is instantly recognisable from his enthusiasm,
shock of white hair, sharply tailored s...
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Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker summers near Grand Rapids
