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RODIN MUSEUM PARIS
Art For Lovers and Thinkers

Paris is the city of art and of lovers. Stoll along the Seine, beneath the Eiffel Tower, or any green space in Paris and you will find Parisians or visitors to the French capital city of lights just sitting in a garden thinking and young lovers on a bench kissing. After all what is Paris for? And some of them are nude in bronze and marble. Especially at the museum in the middle of Paris dedicated to the artworks of Auguste Rodin, France’s most famous sculptor.

Rodin also worked in other forms of art, painting, sketching, but it is his sculpting of the human figure that has etched his art in our memory. The Rodin Museum is located in a former 18th Century mansion where the artist once lived behind a walled garden just next to the Invalides military museum and its dome cathedral resting place of Napoleon in his insanely austentatious sepulcher memorial, a quiet respite from the bustle of Paris. Here at this mansion originally built for a Paris wigmaker, you will find Rodin’s most famous work “The Thinker” sitting on a pedestal in the garden, attracting contemplation. The Thinker was created in 1888 for a exhibition in Copenhagen called the “The Gates of Hell” following Dante’s vision and he now quietly watches over the gates of the garden. Inside the Musee is the sculptor’s immortal innocently erotic “The Kiss” two lovers locked forever in a naked marble kiss. Modelled on the legend of illicit young lovers murdered by a jealous husband on discovering them exchanging their first and only embrace. The aging artist had a passionate romance himself with a young assistant, 18-year-old Camille Claudel. A talented artist on her own, Claudel inspired Rodin and served as a model for many of his figures, and her presence is felt amoung the exhibits.

Wander the elegant rooms of the Hôtel Biron house studying Rodin’s haunting vision of the human form illustrating the artists intent to “be moved, to love, to hope, to vibrate, to live”. Here you will find sketch studies that led to the sculture works of “Balzac”, “Adam and Eve”. Get a sense of how the artist lived and thought about his work. Catch the fascinated eyes of children in the school groups that regularly attend lectures and tours in the shades and light of the mansions windows.

The Rodin Museum has over 6,000 sculptures and artworks in its collection, but only a fraction are on regular display. Changing exhibitions display other works from the storage vaults in rotating themes. Outside of Paris, another former house where Rodin worked and and meditated in the town of Meudon, The Villa des Brillants, the museum holds exhibits of other works and the working plaster casts of his Bronze and stone sculptures. © Bargain Travel Europe

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77 rue de Varenne
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