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Exhibition Review

Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece. British Museum, London

07/2018 | 1384 | 160

Pages: 578-580

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Reviewer:

Thomson, Richard (Thomson, Richard)

Subjects

art literature:

Graf Kessler, Harry

artists:

Rodin, Auguste

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Sculpture / Reliefs

museums and institutions:

British Museum, London, Great Britain / Musée Rodin, Paris, France

places:

Great Britain / London / France / Paris

subjects:

French sculpture / Greek (ancient) sculpture / Greek (ancient) architecture / Greek iconography / Greek (ancient) / Neo-classicism / Antiquities / Parthenon, Athens, Greece / Exposition universelle internationale de Paris (1900) / Collecting / Restoration (process) / Friezes / Ornament / Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

works:

Elgin Marbles (British Museum, London) / The Gates of Hell (Musée Rodin, Paris)

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Ancient scene, by Auguste Rodin. Before 1870. Canvas, 81.2 by 126 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

2. Pallas (Athena) with the Parthenon, by Auguste Rodin. 1896. Marble and plaster, 47 by 38.7 by 31 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).

Attributed works:

3. The kiss, large version, by Auguste Rodin. 1888–98. Plaster, cast from marble after 1898, 184 by 112 by 110 cm. (Musée Rodin, Paris; exh. British Museum, London).

Western art unattributed:

4. Goddesses in diaphanous drapery, Figures L and M from the East Pediment of the Parthenon. c.438–32 BC. Marble, 123 by 233 by 98 cm. (British Museum, London).

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