- Rodin was born François-Auguste-René Rodin on November 12, 1840, in Paris, France, to mother Marie Cheffer and father Jean-Baptiste Rodin, a police inspector.
- Camille Claudel: Unfortunately Camille Claudel has been best remembered as the mistress of Auguste Rodin rather than a talented artist in her own right.
- The French sculptor Auguste Rodin created his sculptures largely as volumes existing in space, as materials to be controlled for a variety of surface effects.
- When his sister Maria died in 1862, Auguste Rodin fell into a personal crisis and joined the order of the Pères du Très-Saint Sacrament.
- Held simultaneously at two Parisian institutions, this exhibition offers a unique encounter between the works of Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin, two artists...
- Auguste Rodin was a man that faced a lot of controversy in his life, but against all odds became one of the most famous and wealthy artists in history.
- Summary of Auguste Rodin. Rodin's genius lay in the way he took the classical sculpted figure and gave it an animation and vitality that helped define the modern...
- Auguste Rodin, French sculptor of sumptuous bronze and marble figures, considered by some critics to be the greatest portraitist in the history of sculpture.
- Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a French sculptor who has long been hailed as a modern-day Michelangelo.
- Auguste Rodin quoted in François Dujardin-Beaumetz, Entretiens avec Rodin (Paris: Paul Dupont, 1913), 65. Ibid, 66.