French Sculptor Auguste Rodin
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Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor who was also one of the most influential European artists of the late nineteenth century. He was born in 1840 and died in 1917. He was contemporary with CTzanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh, but he was the first sculptor in a long time to occupy a central position in public attention as he opened up new possibilities for his art much as the Impressionists and post-Impressionists were doing for painting. Rodin came from a poor background and was rejected by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts three times. For many years, he worked as an ornamental mason. He went to Italy in 1875, and it was there he was exposed to the works of Michelangelo, who would serve as his inspiration for his first major work, The Age of Bronze, exhibited in 1878. This work caused controversy because of its naturalistic treatment of the naked figure, an approach quite different from the idealizing convention then common. Rodin was in fact accused of having cast the work from a live model. by 1880, Rodin's reputation was established, and he was then commissioned by the state to make a bronze door for a proposed MusTe des Arts DTcoratifs. Rodin never finished this huge work, known as The Gates of Hell, though he worked on it on and off until 1900. The proposed museum never materialized. The work consists of some 200 figures which would form the basis for famous independent sculptures, such as the well-known The Thinker (Chilvers, Osborne, and Farr 428).
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hers. D'Angers had been commissioned to produce such a work, but he died before he could accomplish the task. Clesinger also accepted the commission, but war intervened before he could perform the job. In 1884 the Municipal Corporation of Calais invited several artists to make proposals for the monument. Rodin made proposals for the work twice before it was accepted, and even then he had to answer a number of objections raised by town critics (Jianou and Goldscheider 46).
The production of the work was beset by a number of troubles so that the finished work was not in place until 1895, though it was started in 1884 and finished in 1889. The story behind the monument was well-known to every child in Calais. In 1347, the French were defeated at CrTcy at the hands of Edward III of England in the Hundred Years' War, and the city of Calais then stood defiantly against a siege of nearly one year before succumbing. Edward demanded a high price for the cessation of hostilities--the execution of any six prominent citizens of Calais. Six leading burghers volunteered, haded by the city's most revered elder, Eustache de Saint-Pierre, and by Mayor Jean d'Aire. They presented themselves to Edward, and he was so impressed by their nobl
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