Auguste Rodin : The French Master of Sculpture

This book explores the life and works of Auguste Rodin, the Master of Sculpture, mainly known as the sculptor of the statue of “The Thinker”.

Auguste Rodin is certainly the French artist about whom most has been written.

Rodin deserves well of our new century; the old one did so incontinently batter him. The anguish of his own Hell's Portal he endured before he moulded its clay between his thick clairvoyant fingers. Misunderstood, therefore misrepresented, he with his pride and obstinacy aroused—the one buttressing the other—was not to be budged from his formulas and practice of sculpture. Then the world of art swung unwillingly and unamiably toward him, perhaps more from curiosity than conviction. Rodin became famous. And he is more misunderstood than ever...