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  • The Cantor Fitzgerald brokerage, where more than 650 employees were killed, owned a trove of drawings and sculptures that included a cast of Rodin's "The Thinker" — which resurfaced briefly after the attacks before mysteriously disappearing again.

    Mystery surrounds loss of records, art on 9/11 2011

  • In fact the visual reference is specifically Rodin's Gates of Hell 1880-1917.

    The Passenger; Don Giovanni; Faust – review 2011

  • Unlike so many lab-engineered anti-aging products, Ms. Rodin's all-natural serum was concocted in her bathroom.

    Linda Rodin 2012

  • In 1970, Mr. Holroyd saw Rodin's bust of the Edwardian beauty Eve Fairfax while doing research, and the face fascinated him: "She appeared serene, sometimes she seemed clothed in a lingering air of melancholy and her sorrowful countenance gained a strange authority."

    Gift Guide: Best of Biography Carl Rollyson 2011

  • TK tk Rachel Kneebone's 'The Descent,' seen in a detail, is at the Brooklyn Museum, in a show including Rodin's work.

    A Sculptor's Duet With Rodin Rachel Wolff 2012

  • Not everything here is memorable, and some works aren't casts made in Rodin's lifetime.

    A Close-Up of a Master Lance Esplund 2011

  • Auguste Rodin's life-size bronze sculpture of St. John the Baptist, for example, one of the most powerful nude figures of its age, looks across one of the subsequent galleries to a late painting of bathers by August Renoir, and suggests not only the primacy of the nude in modernist art but the vast range of approaches it encompassed.

    New Visions Arrive at the Orsay Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011

  • Unable to shoot at the Met, Minnelli staged a minimalist museum scene around a projected still of Rodin's "The Thinker."

    Somewhere, Over the City Bruce Bennett 2011

  • Such is the case with this show of 13 small sculptures in bronze, terra cotta, plaster, marble and biscuit de Sévres, 13 works on paper, 15 period photographs of Rodin's sculptures by Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, and several rare books and artist's letters.

    A Close-Up of a Master Lance Esplund 2011

  • One of her inspirations, she says, was Rodin's magnum opus, "The Gates of Hell" 1880-1917, a pair of monumental doors illustrating Dante's "Divine Comedy" and adorned with dozens of figures coping with their fates in various ways, as the end of the world nears.

    A Sculptor's Duet With Rodin Rachel Wolff 2012

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