Instead of adhering to idealized forms, Rodin embraced imperfections and inner conflicts within his sculptures, a radical ...

Auguste Rodin, Le Penseur (The Thinker ... Another exciting highlight is a set of lifetime casts of individual sculptures of The Burghers of Calais. This remarkable assembly offers a unique ...

with several rare examples of Rodin’s sculpture, including, an important complete set of the Burghers of Calais, all cast within Rodin’s lifetime, a lifetime 1st reduction Kiss, the largest size ...

But Le Blay described a three-tiered “hierarchy” of Rodin’s sculptures ... The remaining five subjects of “The Burghers of Calais” remain at the Glasgow Museums, although another ...

Rodin had even requested Newbury’s insights into the reception of his sculptures during the Glasgow International exhibition of that year. During this exhibition, Glasgow Museums acquired two ...

Rodin later became famous for his ‘Thinker’ sculpture, but prior to this, he was allowed under French law to make different versions of ‘Le Bourgeois’ in plaster and bronze. The loss of The Burghers ...

Workers at the Hirshhorn Museum attempt to hoist Rodin’s “The Burghers of Calais” sculpture out of the museum’s sculpture garden on Monday. Most of the sculptures there have already been ...

This imposing figure, Jean D’Aire, came from a group of sculptures Rodin made, “The Burghers of Calais.” Rodin is referring to the battle between England and France in 1347 during the ...

Casts of some of Rodin’s most celebrated sculptures reflect his game-changing ... comprising “The Burghers of Calais.” There are maquettes from “The Gates of Hell,” including a head ...

These six gentlemen would become known as the Burghers of Calais, and their story was memorialized in an eponymous art piece by renowned 19th Century sculptor and artist, Auguste Rodin. Five of the ...

17.50" x 6.00" x 4.50", 44.50 cm x 15.20 cm x 11.40 cm ...