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Auguste Rodin

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Fan account of Auguste Rodin, a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. b. 1840, d. 1917. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4h

Reclining Nude https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298304

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Herbert N. Straus

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 5h

Reclining Nude, Forshortened https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/49673

Reclining Nude, Forshortened

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 8h

The Thinker https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-thinker-2

The Thinker

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 9h

Dance Movement I https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/228095

On black (marble? lucite?) base

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard and Louise Haskell Daly Funds

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 12h

Bust http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81469

Gift of The Cantor, Fitzgerald Collection

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 1d

Adam https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11320/

Auguste Rodin’s powerfully expressive figure of Adam was originally intended to be paired with a sculpture of Eve, flanking a sculptured bronze portal commissioned by the French government for the Musée de Arts Décoratifs, Paris. For this monumental undertaking, which he entitled The Gates of Hell, Rodin turned to past Italian masters. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome (1508–12) inspired the pose of Rodin’s subject. Rodin rotated Michelangelo’s reclining Adam and transferred the frescoed figure’s gesture of receiving life from God to the sculpture’s right arm. The exaggerated turn of Adam’s left arm comes from Michelangelo’s sculpture of the dead Christ in his Pietà (1548–55; Museo del Duomo, Florence). Rodin chose the portal’s theme from Dante’s fourteenth-century epic poem Inferno; here Adam’s agonized body strikingly conveys the sufferings caused by original sin. Although the museum building was never constructed and the portal was not completed as originally conceived, Rodin explored the expressive potential of the human body as few artists before him had dared. As independent statues, Adam and Eve are among the commission’s numerous progeny. Not until 1938 was the gate cast in bronze and placed at the entrance to the grounds of the Musée Rodin, Paris.

Gift of Robert Allerton

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 1d

Small Head with Turned-Up Nose (Petite Tête au nez retroussé) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111455

Small Head with Turned-Up Nose (Petite Tête au nez retroussé)

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 1d

Suzon https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112019

Suzon

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 1d

Albert-Ernest Carrie-Belleuse https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/albert-ernest-carrie-belleuse

Albert-Ernest Carrie-Belleuse

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 1d

Despair https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/25391/

Despair

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 2d

The Gates of Hell https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/the-gates-of-hell

The Gates of Hell

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 2d

Recumbent Female Nude https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/312363

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 2d

Cybele, large model (Cybèle, grand modèle) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112744

Cybele, large model (Cybèle, grand modèle)

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 2d

Bust of Bellone https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/84774

Bust of Bellone

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 2d

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/untitled-1905

Untitled

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 3d

Iris Waking a Nymph (Iris éveillant une nymphe) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4864

Iris Waking a Nymph (Iris éveillant une nymphe)

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 3d

Figure Sketch http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=21129

Figure Sketch

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 3d

Study for France or Saint George (Étude pour la France, ou Saint Georges) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111448

Study for France or Saint George (Étude pour la France, ou Saint Georges)

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Three views of a mask https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/three-views-of-a-mask

Three views of a mask

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 3d

Bust of Victor Hugo https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/bust-of-victor-hugo

Bust of Victor Hugo

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4d

Eternal Spring https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/229825

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4d

Bacchantes Embracing, Small Model (Bacchantes s'enlaçant, petit modèle) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4862

Bacchantes Embracing, Small Model (Bacchantes s'enlaçant, petit modèle)

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4d

Portrait of Victor Hugo https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/104998

Portrait of Victor Hugo

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4d

Pierre de Wiessant, Second Maquette (Pierre de Wissant, deuxième maquette) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/111461

Pierre de Wiessant, Second Maquette (Pierre de Wissant, deuxième maquette)

Auguste Rodin @augusterodin.bsky.social · 4d

Psyche https://www.wikiart.org/en/auguste-rodin/psyche-1886

Psyche