Year 1877 (first exhibited) Medium Bronze Artist Auguste Rodin Created 1875–1870 Media Bronze | Type Statue Dimensions Life size Location Private collection Genre Kinetic art Periods Impressionism, Modern art | |
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The Age of Bronze (French: L'Âge d'airain) is a bronze statue by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9 cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modelled in 1876.
History
When the statue was first exhibited at the 1877 Salon in Paris, France, Rodin was falsely accused of having made the statue by casting a living model, a charge that was vigorously denied. This charge benefited Rodin though, because people were so eager to see this for themselves.
Casts of the statue can be found in several museums around the world, including:
References
The Age of Bronze Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA