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'''''The Age of Bronze''''' ({{langx|fr|L'âge d'airain}}) is a [[bronze statue]] by the [[French people|French]] [[sculptor]] [[Auguste Rodin]] (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modeled in 1876. |
'''''The Age of Bronze''''' ({{langx|fr|L'âge d'airain}}) is a [[bronze statue]] by the [[French people|French]] [[sculptor]] [[Auguste Rodin]] (1840–1917). The figure is of a life-size nude male, 72 in. (182.9cm) high. Rodin continued to produce casts of the statue for several decades after it was modeled in 1876. |
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Rodin had a Belgian soldier pose for the statue, keeping photographs which survive (in the [[Rodin Museum]]). The pose partly derives from [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Dying Slave]]'' in the [[Louvre Museum]], which has the elbow raised above the head.{{cite news |title=The Age of Bronze, 1876 |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/27895 |work=Princeton Art Museum}} |
Rodin had a Belgian soldier pose for the statue, keeping photographs which survive (in the [[Rodin Museum]]). The pose partly derives from [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Dying Slave]]'' in the [[Louvre Museum]], which has the elbow raised above the head.{{cite news |title=The Age of Bronze, 1876 |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/27895 |work=Princeton Art Museum}} |
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