Tag: Age of Bronze

L’Âge d’airain (1875-1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) 1875–1876 Bronze, 180 x 66 x 60 cm Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen Compare: Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Sir Arthur Evans

(1851–1941) Sir Arthur John Evans, FRS Works: • Anthropology and the Classics (English) Born July 8 1851 Nash Mills (England) Died July 11 1941 Youlbury (England) Occupation Archaeologist Journalist Writer Award Fellow of the Royal Society Title Knight Bachelor (1911)

L’Âge d’airain (1876)

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…