Category: Biographies
We cannot fathom his mysterious head, Through the veiled eyes no flickering ray is sent; But from his torso gleaming light is shed As from a candelabrum; inward bent His glance there glows and lingers. Otherwise The round breast would not blind you with its grace, Nor could th...
We cannot fathom his mysterious head, Through the veiled eyes no flickering ray is sent; But from his torso gleaming light is shed As from a candelabrum; inward bent His glance...
2. Part 2In vain Rude had given his Goddess of Rebellion on the top of the triumphal gate of the Place de L'Étoile that wild gesture and that far-reaching cry. In vain Barye had created...
3. Part 3Rodin has discovered these gestures, has evolved them out of one or several figures and moulded them into sculptural forms. He has endowed hundreds and hundreds of figures that...
4. Part 4The most supreme instance of Rodin's power of exalting a past event to the height of the imperishable, whenever historical subjects or forms demand to live again in his art, is...