If you were French sculptor Auguste Rodin, how would you mark your own gravestone? When the artist’s wife, Rose Beuret, died in 1917, he had a bronze cast of his celebrated Thinker placed on her grave ...
Rodin’s statue of a serious man has become a popular template for not-so-serious memes. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of the Congress. Courtesy Getty Images. Such ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — I stood near The Thinker one day a while back. Nope, not the damaged statue outside the Cleveland Museum of Art in University Circle. I was at the version in Copenhagen, artwork that ...
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Rodin's 'Thinker' Inspires Rilke's Active Creation
How should one live? This existential question haunted the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days of financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...
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