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Artist: Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin's Burghers of Calais remembers six men who, in a long tradition, offered themselves to the English king during the siege of Calais in 1347. Rodin models them as stricken figures bound together by heavy sackcloth and a single bronze base. This tour looks closely at how gesture, clothing and group arrangement carry that story, and it keeps clear what the supplied record establishes, what is later tradition, and what remains undocumented.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
A docent-led look at Rodin's monumental bronze portal at the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, where figures of the damned crowd around a seated thinker and three shades. The article distinguishes what is visible from what is documented and what remains uncertain about this particular cast.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin conceived The Thinker in 1880 as The Poet, a figure of Dante surveying the circles of Hell from the top of The Gates of Hell. This bronze cast, made in 1904, shows the seated nude with his chin on his clenched right hand, and the museum's own reading of the figure ties thought to a body built for action.
Artist: Auguste Rodin
A bronze cast of Auguste Rodin's statue of Honoré de Balzac stands on the Neumarkt in Cologne, before the Lempertz auction house. This docent-led visit explains what the work represents, how its material status as a cast shapes our understanding, and why a monument to a French novelist occupies a public square in Germany.
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