The beaux-arts building itself is also a stunner, designed by French architect Paul Cret ... the nearby Philadelphia Museum of Art, and vice versa. The Rodin Museum sits on the Benjamin Franklin ...
Auguste Rodin’s “Burghers of Calais” revolutionized public sculpture and changed the way heroes were represented in art. But what made it so radical to remain relevant today.
Rodin wrote how deeply he was inspired by fragmentary Classical sculpture, declaring that “these divine fragments . . . move me more profoundly than living persons.” An avid collector of Classical art ...
Artist and artisan, art theorist and proto-installation artist, master of high-publicity performances and rival of Auguste Rodin—Medardo Rosso was one of the great pioneers of Modernism and a figure ...
Rising from a roughly cut base of marble resembling a large rock, two nude figures are delicately carved and polished smooth. A young man on his knees holds his arms behind his back, leaning forward ...