Auguste Rodinin a sentence
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Rodin's The Thinker is arguably to sculpture what the Mona Lisa is to painting.
Rodin = French sculptor famous for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917)
- The heavy ceramic ashtray on Morton's desk (it was Rodin's Thinker with his head turned into a receptacle for cigarette butts) suddenly toppled to the rug, as if to take cover from the force of her scream.† (source)
- A casting of Rodin's Thinker sat on a granite pedestal out front, bronze chin on hand.† (source)
- They visited the, Rodin Museum, sat through afternoon mass at Notre-Dame, took a bus out to Versailles.† (source)
- With measured words he told Philip what to think of Rodin, Albert Samain, and Caesar Franck.† (source)
- He delighted in the robust common sense of Thomas Hobbes; Spinoza filled him with awe, he had never before come in contact with a mind so noble, so unapproachable and austere; it reminded him of that statue by Rodin, L'Age d'Airain, which he passionately admired; and then there was Hume: the scepticism of that charming philosopher touched a kindred note in Philip; and, revelling in the lucid style which seemed able to put complicated thought into simple words, musical and measured, he…† (source)