"Auguste Rodin--the greatest sculptor of the nineteenth century--was also probably the greatest since Michelangelo, whose genius was lifelong inspiration to him. Though the astonishingly lifelike quality of his sculpture was in total defiance of current academic conventions, rodin did not have to face the prolonged and bitter hostility meted out tot he Impressionist painters who were his contemporaries, and in later life he became a famous and widely respected figure."--Publisher's description
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