RODIN AND THE ART OF ANCIENT GREECE

Rodin, famous for The Thinker and The Kiss, drew energy and inspiration from the art of Classical antiquity, and he absorbed and ass imilated the models of ancient Greek and Roman art in his own work in innovative ways. The Parthenon sculptures in particular were a great source of inspiration. He encountered them first in books, plaster casts in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and some origin als in the Louvre, and then drew them first-hand on several visits to the British Museum. He amassed a collection of antiquities inc luding m...[Read more]