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Rodin and the art of ancient Greece / Celeste Farge, Bénédicte Garnier and Ian Jenkins ; organized with the Musée Rodin, Paris.

by Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917, artist.

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New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2018.

Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Exhibitions.

Greece -- Antiquities.

9780500480304 (paper over board : hardback) :

0500480303 (paper over board : hardback)

240 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm

Introduction / Hartwig Fischer -- The French romance for Greek marbles / Celeste Farge and Ian Jenkins -- 'My dream as a sculptor' - The thousand parthenons of Auguste Rodin / Bénédicte Garnier -- The British Museum : A temple of the muses -- Rodin's Parthenon -- Art and nature -- The monument -- The fragment -- Emotion -- Motion -- Chronology of Auguste Rodin.

Rodin, famous for 'The thinker' and 'The kiss', was captivated by the sculptures of Classical antiquity and he constantly reworked and assimilated the forms of ancient Greek and Roman art in his own work. Rodin visited the British Museum for the first time in the summer of 1881 and there greatly admired the sculptures of the Parthenon. Before he saw the originals, he was already acquainted with plaster casts of them displayed in the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The Parthenon sculptures continued to be a major influence on his own work and he visited them frequently on his return visits to London. He also amassed a huge collection of fragments of ancient sculpture that served as a source of inspiration.

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