In mounting an exhibition exploring Rodin and antiquity, the British Museum is in the enviable position of being in ownership of that jewel in the crown, and while Ian Jenkins, senior curator of Greek ...
A summit duel between two great giants of Western sculpture is currently taking place under the Louvre pyramid in Paris. In one corner stands Michelangelo. In the other Rodin. Between them are around ...
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The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin’s sculptures. The Marbles, or Parthenon sculptures, have long ...
A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000) at auction. “Le Désespoir,” ...
At first glance, it may be tempting to view “Rodin and the art of ancient Greece” at the British Museum, the first exhibition in which Phidias’s Parthenon Marbles have been shown alongside the work of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Twenty of the British Museum’s Parthenon marbles will be placed alongside masterpieces by Auguste Rodin in an ...
A new British Museum exhibition will see 18 of the treasures shown alongside Rodin’s work. A section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back ...