I’m a Rodin scholar with a secret: I don’t like The Thinker. I’ve always been vexed by the fame of this sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) of a hyper-muscular man lost in thought.

Rodin’s statue of a serious man has become a popular template for not-so-serious memes. Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in front of the Congress. Courtesy Getty Images. Such ...

If you were French sculptor Auguste Rodin, how would you mark your own gravestone? When the artist’s wife, Rose Beuret, died in 1917, he had a bronze cast of his celebrated Thinker placed on her grave ...

How should one live? This existential question haunted the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days of financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...

The bronze sculpture 'The Thinker' (Le Penseur) by French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) is picutred in front of the Hotel Biron housing the Musee Rodin in Paris on November 6, 2015, days ahead ...

A casting of Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” sculpture, one of the most iconic works of art in the world, sold for 10.7 million euros ($11.14 million) at a Paris auction on Thursday. The auction house, ...

In this Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, photo, people view paintings, left to right; Gaston Modot and The Young Apprentice, both by Amedeo Modigliani, on display as a part of the Rendez-vous à Paris exhibition ...