MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART, Rodin Garden

I’ll now be telling you about some of the works by Rodin we can find in the entrance garden.

Rodin was born in Paris in 1840. Initially the object of harsh criticism for the raw realism of his sculptures, he later became hugely successful, and upon his death in 1917, was considered the most important sculptor in France. Today he is known as the father of modern sculpture. Although he started with classical, mythological and historical themes, his extraordinary ability to shape clay allowed him to obtain a realistic effect, with a dramatic, psychological depth no one before him had ever achieved.

Let’s start with the sculpture entitled Adam, created in 1881, where you can see that the naked figure has not been sculpted to portray its beauty, but rather to depict Adam as if he had not yet received the gift of life from God. The sculpture is influenced by the works by Michelangelo that Rodin had seen during a trip to Italy in 1875....