For years, a French family kept a small marble sculpture among family photos on top of their piano. The one-foot-tall artwork depicted a seated woman holding her leg in the air, and its owners thought ...

Rodin’s very first cast of the work retains an unexpected remnant of the original concept—a Florentine cap (or thinking cap, if you will). Left, Rodin’s The Thinker . Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rodin Museum is ranked #28 out of 34 things to do in Philadelphia. ... The lovely outdoor space features eight of Rodin's works, including The Thinker and The Gates of Hell, ...

While Rodin failed to complete the gates before his death in 1917, he did finish The Thinker.Presented at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1904, the bronze statue — of a muscular man seated ...

Columnist Justice B. Hill has a deepened appreciation for Rodin's The Thinker after seeing an undamaged version of the sculpture in Copenhagen. The version that sits outside the Cleveland Museum ...

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917), The Thinker, large version, modeled 1903, cast by Alexis Rudier 1928, bronze, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Jacob Epstein Collection, 1930.25.1 You might know ...

In August 1927, crews moved the statue of Rodin's "The Thinker" from the former Art Museum to its present home at the "new" Detroit Institute of Arts.