Auguste Rodin's masterpiece The Gates of Hell is an epic achievement: a massive portal to Hades inspired by Dante's Inferno, its towering doors covered with nearly 200 individual figures. Commissioned ...
Auguste Rodin brought Impressionism to stone with iconic statues like “The Thinker.” With statues like his iconic “Thinker,” Rodin made ordinary people seem noble, his rough surfaces brought ...
In 2005, the Palace of Fine Arts in downtown Santiago, Chile, hosted a collection of sculptures by the French master Auguste Rodin. Late one morning, after a party celebrating another of the museum’s ...
The Musée Rodin is one of my very favorite museums in Paris, and one I keep coming back to again and again. Part of that is the setting. It’s housed in the Hotel Biron, an 18th-century mansion in the ...