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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...