Monument to Balzac is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in memory of the French novelist Honoré de Balzac. According to Rodin, the sculpture aims to portray...
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Later, a statue (called the Monument to Balzac) was created by the celebrated French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Cast in bronze, the Balzac Monument has stood...
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guarantees the timelessness of Rodin's works. The artist also stands out by the monumental aspect of some of his works: Balzac, The Burghers of Calais or...
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This article lists a selection of notable works created by Auguste Rodin. The listing follows the books Rodin, Vie et Oeuvre and Rodin. Albertinum, Dresden...
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The Burghers of Calais (redirect from Monument To The Burghers Of Calais)
a sculpture by Auguste Rodin in twelve original castings and numerous copies. It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French...
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Camille Claudel (category Auguste Rodin)
Nogent-sur-Seine opened in 2017. Claudel was a longtime associate of sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the Musée Rodin in Paris has a room dedicated to her works. Sculptures...
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List of The Thinker sculptures (category Sculptures by Auguste Rodin)
This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions...
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Père Lachaise Cemetery (section Monuments)
Ferragus by Balzac – description of cemetery 1834: Le Père Goriot by Balzac – the Père Goriot is buried in Père Lachaise 1842: Pere la Chaise, a poem by Lydia...
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female figure. page 37: Unknown, Ganesh (Hindu). page 37: Auguste Rodin, Monument to Balzac (1891–1898). page 38: John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Madame...
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Jacquin, Emmanuel, Les Tuileries, Du Louvre à la Concorde, Editions du Patrimoine, Centres des Monuments Nationaux, Paris. (ISBN 978-2-85822-296-4) Pommereau...
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First, Second and Third Republics, it contains a monument, the Monument à la République, which includes a statue of the personification of France, Marianne...
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Baudelaire or Honoré de Balzac. In the Bridge Gallery, connecting the Main Building to the Rodin Wing, the spectator can experience a total of 51 sculptures...
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Arc de Triomphe (category Monuments of the Centre des monuments nationaux)
l'Étoile, often called simply the Arc de Triomphe, is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at...
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Auguste Rodin, 1881–1904, L'Ombre (The Shade), bronze (West terrace) Auguste Rodin, 1881–ca.1905, Méditation avec bras, bronze The Kiss by Auguste Rodin, (1934...
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The term monument historique is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which...
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" Liberation, February 27, 2017 Ouest-France, "Le Sacré-Coeur à Paris classé monument historique", December 10, 2022. Recent historians put the number...
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Hôtel de Ville, Paris (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle and Henri Chapu, but easily the most famous was Auguste Rodin. Rodin produced the figure of the 18th-century mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert...
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Grande Arche (category Monuments historiques of Île-de-France)
Reitzel Les forces dont resultent quelques monuments Parisiens de la Fin du XXe siècle Le pouvoir et la ville à l'époque moderne et contemporaine, Sorbonne...
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Paris in the Belle Époque (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
commissioned to create a Monument to Balzac (now on the Boulevard Raspail), which caused a scandal and made him a celebrity. Rodin's work was exhibited near...
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Paris (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Impressionist art. The Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne, Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso are noted for their collections of modern and contemporary...
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2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023. "JO Paris-2024 : Bouygues construira l'Arena 2 à Paris". LEFIGARO. May 27, 2020. Daniels, Tom (5 January 2024). "Riot Games...
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formal garden à la française, and he laid out a series of squares along an east–west alley closed at the east end by the Medici Fountain, and a rectangle...
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Luxor Obelisks (category Monuments and memorials in Paris)
location in Egypt. The Luxor Obelisk in Paris was classified officially as a monument historique in 1936. The Luxor Temple predated Ramesses II by about 150...
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Musée Picasso (category Monuments historiques of Paris)
by the State during the French Revolution; in 1815 it became a school, in which Balzac studied; before housing the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures...
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Arts et Métiers, as well as The Thinker and The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin. The museum also purchases specific works to fill gaps and finish the collections...
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in Germany". archives. Retrieved 18 December 2013. "Monument à Jules Grévy". E-Monument website. Retrieved 30 December 2013. "Villa La Sapinère". latribunedelart...
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La Colonne de la Grande Armée d'Austerlitz ou de la Victoire, monument triomphal élevé à la gloire de la grande armée par Napoléon. Paris, 1822, p. 4 (list...
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antiquities gallery). Works by Pablo Picasso and Auguste Rodin are found in the Musée Picasso and the Musée Rodin respectively. The Picasso museum, which was renovated...
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Fontaine Saint-Michel (category Monuments historiques of Paris)
Empire by the architect Gabriel Davioud. It has been listed since 1926 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. The fontaine Saint-Michel...
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Amiens (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
" Vie littéraire à Amiens sous l'ancien Régime " et " La vie littéraire au siècle XIX ", éditions du patrimoine, centre des monuments nationaux, 2007,...
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