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"title": "Rodin-100 Years",
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"title": "Rodin\u2014100 Years",
"description": "Rodin\u2014100 Years. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 1, 2017-May 13, 2018).",
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"did_you_know": "The sculpture suggests the heroism and suffering of his countrymen during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870\u201371. This life-sized male figure was modeled after a Belgium soldier named August Neyt.",
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"description": "Rodin\u2019s earliest surviving life-size sculpture, The Age of Bronze is an enigmatic and provocative image of a man awakening to new consciousness. The figure originally held a spear in one hand; by removing the weapon, Rodin stripped the sculpture of narrative symbols and focused on the sensuality and psychological power of the male nude. Contemporaries found the figure so realistic they falsely accused Rodin of making a cast from a living person. Museum trustee Ralph King commissioned this cast from the artist in 1916 with the intention of donating it to the museum. Rodin personally supervised the exceptionally fine casting and finished it with his favorite patina, a deep reddish tone he called \u201ccrushed grape.\u201d",
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"citation": "Tacha, Athena. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.",
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"citation": "Jianu, Ionel, and Ce\u0301cile Goldscheider. Rodin. Paris: Arted, 1967.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"citation": "Hamilton, George Heard. 19th and 20th Century Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1970.",
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"citation": "Tacha, Athena. A Supplement to Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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