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Visual Art: Get a load of this - it's Rodin in ecstasy Rodin and Italy French Academy, Rome Rodin in 1900 Luxembourg Museum, Paris
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Writing his memoir in 1943, the novelist Stefan Zweig recalled a
visit to Rodin's studio in Paris before the First World War. Rodin,
according to Zweig, had modestly answered "N'est-ce-pas?" when his
visitor remarked on the brilliance of a certain clay model; then,
frowning, had noticed a flaw in the maquette and begun to work on it
feverishly. For an hour or more, the sculptor wielded his spatula as
though (in Zweig's word) an ecstasis had come over him; then,
forgetting his startled visitor...
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AUGUSTE RODIN SHOW AT THE CHRYSLER SPANS SCULPTOR'S CAREER.(DAILY BREAK)
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; EARLIER THIS week, the first floor of the Chrysler Museum of Art resembled a 19th century Paris salon. Dozens of bronze figures - tabletop-size to colossal - were scattered through a series of galleries. Preparations were under way for ``Rodin: Sculpture From the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor
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Exhibit lets one think of Rodin in new ways.(Arts)
The Washington Times
; Is there anyone who hasn't seen a replica of The Thinker ? The familiar figure of a man, chin in hand, gazing contemplatively toward the ground, has been used to sell computers, household appliances and philosophy textbooks. When the work's creator, Auguste Rodin, died in 1917, he was one of the
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Rodin Museum celebrates 75th anniversary; Works of famous sculptor gathered to form dedication
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; PHILADELPHIA - When a young Auguste Rodin sent his first sculptures across the Atlantic for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, critics and cognoscenti apparently didn't think much of it. The French sculptor's work won no awards and garnered no press during its time in Philadelphia,
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[ Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" is based on Dante's... ]
The Topeka Capital-Journal
; Rodin's "The Gates of Hell" is based on Dante's "Divine Comedy," including the characters Paolo and Francesca. The sculptor's first representation of the lovers, because of its happiness, proved to be out of context with the rest of scene. It became an independent sculpture titled "The Kiss," and
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Philly's Rodin Museum is 75
Sunday Gazette-Mail
; PHILADELPHIA - When a young Auguste Rodin sent his first sculptures across the Atlantic for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, critics and cognoscenti apparently didn't think much of them. The French sculptor's work won no awards and garnered no press during its time in Philadelphia,
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