Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) Rodin, 1896 Rodin, 1862 Edward Steichen: Rodin, c. 1902 Rodin, The man with the broken nose, 1863 Rodin, Rose Beuret, c. 1865 Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1876 Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1876 Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1876 Gaudenzio Marconi: Auguste Neyt, model for The Age of Bronze, 1877 “The human body is a walking temple. It contains a central point around which the volumes distribute themselves....“ Auguste Rodin, Art, (1912), Boston, 1917. Rodin, John the Baptist Preaching, 1878 Adolphe Braun, photo of St. John the Baptist, 1878 Rodin, Walking Man, c. 1905 In 1347, following a particularly long siege, the city of Calais was obliged to surrender to Edward III, the King of England. Six Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 burghers, Eustache de Saint-Pierre, Jean d'Aire, Jacques and Pierre de Wissant, Jean de Fiennes, Andrieu d'Andres, were willing to sacrifice their lives and accepted to hand over the keys of the city to the King. Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884- 89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, Burghers of Calais, 1884-89 Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880- 1917 Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917 Rodin, The Three Shades, Rodin, early model for the Gates of Hell, c1880, Pierre Choumoff: Rodin and Henriette Coltat sitting in front of The Gates of Hell, gelatin silver print, early 1900s Rodin: Ugolino, 1881-82 “But when to our somber cell was thrown A slender ray, and each face was lit I saw in each the aspect of my own, For very grief both of my hands I bit, And suddenly from the floor arising they, Thinking my hunger was the cause of it, J. B. Carpeaux: Exclaimed: Father eat thou of us, and stay Ugolino, c Our suffering: thou didst our being dress 1860-61 In this sad flesh; now strip it all away.” --Dante, Inferno, canto 33 Rodin Museum, Paris "One day for our own pleasure we were reading Of Lancelot and how love pinioned him. We were alone and innocent of suspicion. "Several times that reading forced our eyes To meet and took the color from our faces. But one solitary moment conquered us. "When we read there of how the longed-for smile Was being kissed by that heroic lover, This man, who never shall be severed from me, "Trembling all over, kissed me on the mouth. That book — and its author — was a pander! In it that day we did no further reading.“ -- Dante Alighieri, Inferno, canto V Rodin, The Kiss, 1888-89 Rodin, The Kiss, 1888-89 William Blake: The Whirlwind of Lovers, c1824 Ingres, Paolo and Francesca, 1819 Rodin, The Eternal Idol, 1889 Rodin, The Eternal Idol, 1889 Rodin, Iris, Messenger of the Gods, c. 1889 Rodin, Danaid, c. 1889 marble carved by Jean Escoula Rodin, Danaid, circa 1889 John Singer Sargent: Danaids, mural, marble carved by Jean Escoula BMFA, 1912 Rodin, Thought, 1886 Egyptian scribe, Old Kingdom, BMFA Rodin, Thought, 1886 Rodin, Balzac, 1893-97 Rodin, Balzac, 1893- 97 Rodin, The Hand of God, 1898 On Mystery: "It is a general belief that we live only through our senses, and that the world of appearances suffices us. We are taken for children who, intoxicated with changing colors, amuse themselves with the shapes of things as with dolls. We are misunderstood. Lines and colors are only to us the symbols of hidden realities. Our eyes plunge beneath the surface to the meaning of things, and when afterwards we reproduce the form, we endow it with the spiritual meaning which it covers. An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth." -- Rodin Auguste Rodin, Art, (1912), Boston, 1917, pp. 177-178 Rodin, The Secret, 1910 Camille Claudel, age 20 Camille Claudel, age 20 Camille Claudel and Jessie Newcomb in studio, 1883-85 Rodin, Thought, 1886 Rodin, Danaid, c. 1889 marble carved by Jean Escoula Claudel, The Waltz, 1891-1905 Claudel, The Waltz, 1891- 1905 Claudel, The Age of Maturity (L’Age Mur), 1889 Claudel, The Age of Maturity (L’Age Mur), 1889 Claudel, “The Collage,” sketchbook, 1892 Claudel, The Gossips, c. 1893-1905 Camille Claudel: The Wave, 1890s Hokusai: The Great Wave, 1820s Camille Claudel: The Wave, 1890s Claudel, Perseus and the Gorgon, c. 1898 Camille Claudel, c. 1935 .