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 ...

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,” ...

Auguste Rodin was fascinated by the Elgin Marbles from the moment he first saw them in 1881. Lilias Wigan went to the British Museum to examine his modern take on an ancient treasure – currently on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...