Designed by fsc student and agb design fellow, riley karau

Each era seems to have its own proclaimed master sculptor, recognized as a master in that artist’s own lifetime. Some names are more familiar than others — Polykleitos (Classical Greece), Donatello (Early Renaissance), Michelangelo (High Renaissance), Bernini (Baroque), and Canova (Ne0-Classical) to name a few — but all have captured the minds, eyes, and hearts of generations of art lovers. For the late nineteenth century, on the cusp of the abstractive trends of the twentieth, the celebrated master sculptor was Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). Rodin’s bronze sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.

And now through a generous partnership with the Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Foundation, fourteen Rodins find a long-term home at The AGB, here in the Buck Gallery and throughout the first floor of the Museum’s two buildings.