Art

by Auguste Rodin

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Flesh of the woman, ideal clay; oh sublime penetration of the spirit in the slime; matter, where the soul shines through its shroud; clay, where one sees the fingers of the divine sculptor; august dust, which draws kisses, and the heart of man; so holy that one does not know—so entirely is love the conqueror, so entirely is the soul drawn—whether this passion is not a divine thought; so holy that one cannot, in the hour when the senses are on fire, hold beauty without embracing God!

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We never see but one side of things—the other is plunged in night and mystery. Man suffers the effect without knowing the cause. All that he sees is short, useless, and fleeting.

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As when, in taking flight, the bird bends the branch, so his soul had bruised his body.

INDEX

• Age d’Airain, Rodin’s, [65], [67], [71], [73]
• Andrea del Sarto, [105], [106]
• Arc de Triomphe, [83]
• Aristotle, [216]
• Art, realism in, [25]–34;
  • character in, [37]–50;
  • movement in, [65]–89;
  • drawing and color in, [93]–107;
  • thought in, [151]–171;
  • mystery in, [175]–188
• Art, modern, Rodin’s views on, [6]
• Artist, usefulness of, [227]–245
• Baiser, Rodin’s, [186]
• Balzac, Rodin’s, [66], [146], [186]
• Baptistery, Florence, [40]
• Barye, [67]
• Bazire, [135], [138]
• Beaudelaire, [44]
• Beauty of women, [113]–118
• Belle Heaulmière, Rodin’s, [37]–42
• Berthelot, Rodin’s bust of, [146]
• Biron, l’Hôtel de, [111]
• Bois Sacré, Chavannes’, [238]
• Bourdelle, [227]–242
• Bourgeois de Calais, Rodin’s, [66], [85], [144], [185]
• British Museum, [212]
• Brongniart children, Houdon’s bust of, [122]
• Burghers of Calais. See Bourgeois de Calais
• Busts, Rodin’s, [134]–148, [186]
• Busts, Rodin’s views on, [121]–148
• Byron, Lord, [158]
• Calais, [88]
• Caliari, [79]
• Cambodian dancers, [116]
• Captives, Michael Angelo’s, [218]
• Carpeaux, [67], [159]
• Centauress, Rodin’s, [163]
• Chantilly, [201]
• Character in nature, [45]
• Chardin, [240]
• Charles V, Titian’s, [131]
• Chavannes, Puvis de, [237], [238], [241];
  • Rodin’s bust of, [143]
• Children of Edward, Delavigne’s. See Enfants d’Edouard
• Claude Lorraine, [106]
• Cnidian Venus, [206]
• Color, Rodin’s views on, [96]–107
• Color in sculpture, [60]
• Commander, the, [73]
• Concert Champêtre, Giorgione’s, [182]
• Confessions, Rousseau’s, [126]
• Constant, [58]
• Corneille, [85]
• Corot, [166], [179], [241]
• Correggio, [105], [106]
• Courbet, [240], [241]
• Course d’Epsom, Gericault’s, [76]
• Cuyp, [166]
• Dalou, [140]–142;
  • Rodin’s bust of, [140]
• Dance, Carpeaux’s, [67]
• Dante, [69]
• Daughter of Icarus, Rodin’s. See Fille d’Icare
• David, [104]
• Delacroix, [103], [158]
• Delaroche, [157]
• Delavigne, Casimir, [157], [158]
• Della Robbia. See Luca della Robbia
• Dépôt des Marbres, [25], [111]
• Despiau, [227], [229], [233]
• Diadumenes, [212]
• Diana, Houdon’s, [115], [237]
• Divine Comedy, [160]
• Don Juan’s Shipwreck, Delacroix’s. See Naufrage de Don Juan
• Donatello, [40], [202]
• Drawing, Rodin’s views on, [93]–107
• Ducal Palace, Venice, [79]
• Duomo, the, [221]
• Dürer, Albrecht, [104], [106]
• Egyptian sculpture, [180]
• Embarkation for the Island of Cythera, Watteau’s. See Embarquement, etc.
• Embarquement pour Cythère, Watteau’s, [80], [84]
• Enfants d’Edouard, Delavigne’s, [157]
• Epsom Races. See Course d’Epsom
• Europa, [79]
• Falguière, Rodin’s bust of, [145]–146
• Fille d’Icare, Rodin’s, [162]
• Flesh, the, [56], [57]
• France, Anatole, [203]–207
• Francis I, Titian’s, [131]
• Franklin, Houdon’s bust of, [122], [128]
• Gericault, [76], [77]
• Ghirlandajo, [202]
• Giorgione, [182]
• Gleaners, Millet’s, [182]
• Goethe, [180]
• Gothic cathedrals, [166]
• Goujon, Jean, [115], [218]
• Graces, Raphael’s, [201]
• Greek sculpture, [11], [27], [56], [57], [114], [192]–196, [212]–218
• Greuze, [240]
• Hanako, [116]
• Henner, [123]
• Hercules, Bourdelle’s, [227]
• Hercules, statue of, [205]
• Holbein, [104], [106]
• Holy Wood. See Bois Sacré
• Hommage à Victor Hugo, Chavannes’, [238]
• Homme qui marche, Rodin’s, [66]
• Houdon, his busts, [115], [121], [122], [125]–129, [147], [148], [237]
• Houdon, Mme., Houdon’s bust of, [122]
• Hugo, Victor, [118], [135]–138, [181], [243]
• Hugo, Rodin’s bust of, [135], [136], [137], [138], [156]
• Illusion, Rodin’s, [162]
• Ingres, [104]
• l’Intransigeant, [135]
• Iron Age. See Age d’Airain
• Issy, [13]
• Italians, the modern, [114]
• Judgment of Paris, Watteau’s, [115]
• Laurens, Jean-Paul, Rodin’s bust of, [144]
• Literature, its relation to art, [153]–161
• Louvre, the, [76], [79], [101], [201], [211]–223
• Luca della Robbia, [178]
• Lucretius, [207]
• Luxembourg, Musée du, [41], [65], [140], [144], [161], [187]
• Lysippus, [199], [205]
• Man with the Hoe, Millet’s, [44]
• Maréchal Ney, Rude’s, [67], [69]
• Marivaux, [84]
• Marseillaise, La (newspaper), [135]
• Marseillaise, Rude’s, [67], [83], [84], [85], [237]
• Meditation. See Penseur
• Meudon, [5], [37], [111], [134], [175]
• Michael Angelo, [97], [178];
  • his work expounded by Rodin, [196]–202, [218]–223
• Millet, François, [43], [179], [182], [240], [241]
• Mirabeau, Houdon’s bust of, [122], [127]
• Modelling, [53]–61, [66]
• Models, [26]
• Moses, Michael Angelo’s, [228]
• Movement in art, [65]–89
• Mystery in art, [175]–188
• Nature, as seen by Rodin, [30]–34, [37]–50
• Naufrage de Don Juan, Delacroix’s, [158]
• Nude, the, [27]
• Ovid, [68]
• Palais Royal, [156]
• Pan, Bourdelle’s, [227]
• Pantheon, the, [144], [238]
• Paris, [15], [111], [238]
• Parnassus, [101]
• Parthenon, the, [183]
• Paul III, Titian’s, [131]
• Pensée, Rodin’s, [161]
• Penseur, Rodin’s, [151]–152, [185]
• Periboëtos, torso of, [213]
• Phidias, [114], [165], [218], [222];
  • his work expounded by Rodin, [192]–196
• Philip IV, Velasquez’s, [131]
• Photographs, instantaneous, [73], [74], [75], [76]
• Pietà, Michael Angelo’s, [222]
• Pilon, Germain, [218]
• Pisanello, [131]
• Polycletus, [199], [212]
• Pont de l’Alma, [5]
• Portraits, [123]–125, [129]–134
• Pottery, [99]
• Poussin, [236], [239]
• Praxiteles, [199], [206], [213]
• Prudhon, [240]
• Puget, [236]
• Pygmalion, Rodin’s, [163], [164]
• Racine, [45]
• Raphael, [97], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [106], [107], [200]
• Realism in art, [25]–34
• Rembrandt, [101], [102], [103], [105], [106], [107], [167], [168], [187]
• Robbia, della. See Luca della Robbia
• Rochefort, Henri, [138], [139]
• Rochefort, Rodin’s bust of, [138], [139]
• Rodin, Auguste, his home at Val-Fleury, [5];
  • at the Dépôt des Marbres, [25];
  • his method of work, [26]-34;
  • at “l’Hôtel de Biron,” [111];
  • his religion, [175]-177;
  • his views on modern art, [6];
  • on nature, [30]-34, [37]-50;
  • on modelling, [53]-61;
  • on drawing and color, [93]-107;
  • on beauty of women, [111]-118;
  • on busts and portraits, [121]-148;
  • on thought in art, [151]-171;
  • on mystery in art, [175]-188;
  • on Phidias and Michael Angelo, [191]-207, [218]-223;
  • on usefulness of artists, [227]-245
• Rousseau, Houdon’s bust of, [125]
• Rousseau, Theodore, [166]
• Rubens, [98], [105], [106]
• Rude, [67], [69], [83], [85], [237]
• Ruysdael, [166]
• Sainte Geneviève, Chavannes’, [238]
• Saint George, [101]
• Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Rodin’s, [65], [67], [71], [72], [73], [74], [185]
• Saint John, Rodin’s. See Saint-Jean-Baptiste
• Sainte Magdalene, Donatello’s, [40]
• Saint-Pierre, Eustache de, [86], [88]
• Santisimo Christo, Chapel del, Burgos, [175]
• Sanzio, [101]
• Scopas, [199]
• Sculpture, Egyptian, [180]
• Sculpture, Greek, [11], [27], [56], [57], [114], [192]-196, [212]-218
• Sebastian, Velasquez’s, [43]
• Shakespeare, [45]
• Siena, [201]
• Société des Gens de Lettres, [146]
• Sorbonne, the, [238]
• South Kensington, [101]
• Stained-glass, [98]
• Thiers, [127]
• Three Fates, [183]
• Titian, [98], [131], [167], [168]
• Truth in art, [31], [45]
• Turner, [106]
• Ugliness in nature, [42]
• Ugolin, Rodin’s, [159]
• Val-Fleury, Rodin’s home at, [5]
• Vatican, the, [101]
• Velasquez, [43], [105], [106], [131]
• Venus, the Cnidian, [206]
• Venus of the Capitol, [206]
• Venus di Medici, [54], [206]
• Venus of Milo, [213]
• Veronese, [79], [98]
• Victory of Samothrace, [215]
• Villain, [136]
• Villon, [37]
• Vinci, Leonardo da, [182]
• Voltaire, Houdon’s bust of, [121], [122], [126], [237]
• Washington, Houdon’s bust of, [122]
• Watteau, [80], [81], [85], [115], [237], [240]
• Women, beauty of, [113]-118

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