- The Prodigal Son is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin. Versions. Versions exist in several museums, including: Victoria and Albert Museum, London: c. 1885–1887, bronze.
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- In its enlarged form, the work gained a dramatic intensity befitting its subject―the biblical parable of the prodigal son, who threw himself at his father’s feet to beg...
- Rodin's sculpture shows the returned adolescent crying out his misery in a moment of despair and doubt, begging for forgiveness...
- His first version of the scene from the Parable of the Prodigal Son, in which the father wore a beard, was made in 1892.
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- “The Prodigal Son” is a notable sculpture by Auguste Rodin, crafted in bronze in the year 1889, an era where the Impressionism movement was making a profound...
- Sculptures in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. ... Statues of the Return of the Prodigal Son.
- The Prodigal Son, with its many versions and adaptations, is an example of Rodin's reuse and adaptation of favourite themes and compositions.
- In his bronze sculpture of The Prodigal Son, the artist takes us back to the Biblical story of the man who had two sons.
- The statue is based on the biblical parable of the prodigal son—the story of a man who has two sons.
- John L. Tancock, The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin, David R. Godine and Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1976), plate 5, p. 45.
- Delesprie was commissioned by The Crystal Cathedral (now Christ Cathedral) to sculpt this heroic sized monument inspired by the message of a father’s...
- In the first year that Minne was active there, he made expressive sculptures that express strong emotions, such as The Prodigal Son.
