#auguste rodin

[deadhorsedan]

Naked Meteor - Auguste Rodin (unknown date)

came across this randomly today. how touching. perhaps she is just asleep, perhaps she is daydreaming, but most certainly she hurts for she is a woman

[n0tnowjohn]

Eternal Springtime (French: L'Éternel Printemps) is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin

[poubellebebe]

Auguste Rodin, Amor and Psyche, 1886, bronze

[naturallyb0rnthriller]

A small collection of Rodin’s at Stanford University, “The Gates of Hell”, “Adam”, “Eve”, and “The Three Shades”

[itznymph]

Danaid of Rodin

[mythsatnoon]

[sanjaangie]

La Porte des enfers (Gate to hell) de Rodin

[everlovingt]

Saw some art inspired by Rodin’s work, went to to look up the Gates of Hell. Am I the only one who didn’t know that he never finished it? That all of the bronzes of it were made after his death based off of his unfinished work?

I also didn’t know how many of his works are fragments of the Gates of Hell.

The Thinker:

(Above pictures from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell)

The Old Courtesan (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/191805):

And one of my favorites, Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone (3d model at the link below):

Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone (1881 CE) - The Virtual Museum

This work depicts a female figure, known as a fallen caryatid—a term from classical Greek architecture referring to a sculpted woman serving