France/Spain 2011 - Day 4, Part 3 - Paris: Musée Rodin

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France/Spain 2011
Day 4 - 20th March - Paris: Musée Rodin (Part 3)


Paolo and Francesca
There was a whole series


Motorboating The Eternal Idol


The Kiss


The Age of Bronze


Writeup on The Age of Bronze, with photograph of the model Auguste Neyt posing


The Call to Arms


Pedestal with Titans; Rodin, Carrier-Belleuse


Various Paintings. I didn't know Rodin painted too


Young Girl with Roses on Hat


The Three Shades


Bellona


Rodin in front of the Gates of Hell, Käsebier


The Sirens


The Despair


Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone
I love Caryatids

I'd seen a few of these items in the Musée D'Orsay. Ahh, the joys of bronzes - reproductions!


Rodin working at his Gates of Hell, Bourdelle


Bust of Balzac, Nude Study C, folded Arms


Apotheosis of Victor Hugo


Vain tenderness


Explanatory writeup on how the Burghers of Calais was not well-received in Calais


Bust of Victor Hugo

Some of the non-Rodin - the non-bronze/sculpture material, at that - was quite nice.


Virgin of the Seven Sorrows. Mid-16th - first quarter of 17th century.


Pere Tanguy, Vincent Van Gogh


Hand emerging from the thombe (sic)


3 excellent Greek vases. I liked them so much I took pictures of all of them. They were in suspiciously good condition, so I suspect they were restored in the era before it was fashionable to make restoration obvious. So apart from gluing the fragments together, they probably touched up the paint to cover the cracks.


Henri Rochefort


Iris


Christ and the Magdelene


Pygmalion and Galatea


Evil Spirits


Tower of Labour

The Rodin bronzes were not bad, but they couldn't hold a candle to the Bernini ones. I'm not sure if this was due to skill or to style.