Rodin

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Auguste Rodin's The Three Shades atop the Gates of Hell: three identical bowed bronze nudes leaning together, arms hanging toward one another

Page from Rodin's conversations on art: asked if art is a kind of religion, he answers that its first commandment is to model well an arm, a torso, or a thigh
Yellowed spread from Rodin's L'Art in French: passages declaring art dead to modern utility, and art as contemplation, the joy of intelligence seeing clearly

Black-and-white photograph of Auguste Rodin, bearded and in a dark smock, raising a mallet against a huge white marble block
Sketchbook 32 spread: a copy of Rodin's Le Sommeil in red wash and pencil, the sleeping head dissolving into loose coiling lines — 'Le Sommeil, Monsieur Rodin'