Rodin is not an artist you turn to for beauty. He exaggerates and particularises, his sculptures teeter on the grotesque, even when they’re supposed to portray beauty. A year after the centenary of ...

A section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin ...

A sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin that had disappeared from public view for almost 120 years and was thought to be a copy has sold for 860,000 euros ($984,000) at auction. “Le Désespoir,” ...

The Parthenon sculptures, conceived by Pheidias (c. 480–430 BC), are among the most renowned artefacts of Greek antiquity. And from now until July 29 some of the British Museum’s key works from among ...

In mounting an exhibition exploring Rodin and antiquity, the British Museum is in the enviable position of being in ownership of that jewel in the crown, and while Ian Jenkins, senior curator of Greek ...

At first glance, it may be tempting to view “Rodin and the art of ancient Greece” at the British Museum, the first exhibition in which Phidias’s Parthenon Marbles have been shown alongside the work of ...

The Frenchman made some of the best loved sculptures in the world. But his magnificent work is still no match for the Parthenon Marbles. My god, what art! The British Museum’s astonishing, ravishing, ...

A new British Museum exhibition will see 18 of the treasures shown alongside Rodin’s work. A section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back ...

A section of the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum (PA) The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin ...

The controversial Elgin Marbles will go back under the spotlight at the British Museum, in a new exhibition which compares them with Rodin’s sculptures. The Marbles, or Parthenon sculptures, have long ...