The Age of Bronze
The Age of Bronze (French: L'Âge d'airain) is a bronze statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The figure is of a life-size nude male. When first exhibited at the 1877 Salon in Paris, Rodin was falsely accused of having made the statue by casting a living model, a charge that was vigorously denied. This charge actually benefited Rodin though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves. Copies of the Age of Bronze can be found in several museums around the world, including the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), Hungary, the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the V&A in London, Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds , the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Princeton University Art Museum and the Soumaya in Mexico.
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- 1997 : Vers l'âge d'airain, Rodin en Belgique : Exposition, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Claude Judrin and I. Vassalo, Musée Rodin editions (ISBN 2901428606)
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