Auguste Rodin: The First Modern Sculptor

This video, using footage in the V&A London, Hotel Biron and Musee d'Orsay, Paris, looks at the development of Auguste Rodin's development into the first Modernist sculptor, culminating in the controversy of his radical 'Monument to Balzac'. Music (Sergei Rachmaninov): Introduction - Pn. Conc. No. 2 in C mn: II. Adagio Man with Broken Nose - Pn. Conc. No. 1 in C mn: II Adagio The Age of Bronze - Pn. Conc. No. 2 in C mn: I. Moderato The Walking Man - Prelude in B mn, Op. 32, No. 10 La Defense - Pn. Conc. No. 2 in C mn: III. Allegro The Gates of Hell - Morceaux de Fantasie Op. 3, No. 2 in C# mn The Burghers of Calais - 'Vocalise' transcribed for Pn and Vn Victor Hugo - Pn. Conc. No 1 in F# mn: II. Andante Balzac - Pn. Conc. No. 1 in F# mn: II. Andante