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Rodin remembered.(Report from Europe)(Auguste Rodin)(Brief Article)
Auguste Rodin was born in Paris on November 12, 1840. Three times he failed the entrance exam for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and eventually he studied and worked in a number of sculpture studios. Then, in 1875, he set off for Italy, where the work of Michelangelo made a great impact on him. The same year he had a work accepted for the Salon exhibition in Paris.
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The years 1881 and 1882 were very productive for him, with the completion of The Thinker, among other famous works. His many subsequent commissions include The Burghers of Calais (1885), Monument to Victor Hugo (1889), and Monument to Balzac (1891). In the twentieth century he undertook portraits of such notables as Vaslav Nijinsky, Gustav ...
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