Rodin is not an artist you turn to for beauty. He exaggerates and particularises, his sculptures teeter on the grotesque, even when they’re supposed to portray beauty. A year after the centenary of ...

A section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

In 1903 Auguste Rodin said, “The most interesting thing about London is the number of its antiquities. In my spare time I simply haunt the British Museum.” It was an uncharacteristically understated ...

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 ...

"Le Désespoir" (Despair) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin. - Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 ...

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 section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin ...