Rodin
Americannoun
noun
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When Saint-Gaudens showed a plaster cast of it at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Auguste Rodin, then the most famous sculptor in Europe, stopped before it, removed his hat and stood in silent tribute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
But Rodin and Michelangelo, as this exhibition wonderfully reminds us, achieved something perhaps rarer: sculpting bodies whose individual force, presence and meaning is entirely self-evident.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
This affair with Rodin, who was 35 years her senior, ended before World War One, and she channelled some of her passion to the spiritual, embracing Catholicism and being received into the church.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
Before his show at the Rodin Museum, Anderson said it was "intimidating" to take on the role "because you are up against people who are in the history books", the Guardian reported.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2026
There’s a sculpture by Auguste Rodin—the head of John the Baptist on a platter—that Theo thinks looks just like Vincent, even though Rodin has never met him.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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