If you were French sculptor Auguste Rodin, how would you mark your own gravestone? When the artist’s wife, Rose Beuret, died in 1917, he had a bronze cast of his celebrated Thinker placed on her grave ...

Rodin’s statue of a serious man has become a popular template for not-so-serious memes. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of the Congress. Courtesy Getty Images. Such ...

The bronze sculpture 'The Thinker' (Le Penseur) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) is picutred in front of the Hotel Biron housing the Musee Rodin in Paris on November 6, 2015, days ahead ...

Auguste Rodin brought Impressionism to stone with iconic statues like “The Thinker.” With statues like his iconic “Thinker,” Rodin made ordinary people seem noble, his rough surfaces brought ...

How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I stood near The Thinker one day a while back. Nope, not the damaged statue outside the Cleveland Museum of Art in University Circle. I was at the version in Copenhagen, artwork that ...

Signature of Auguste Rodin on “The Thinker” (photo by Daniel Schwen, via Wikimedia Commons) It might seem strange to open this review with Auguste Rodin‘s signature on his sculpture “The Thinker.” But ...