The Age of Bronze

(1876)

The Age of Bronze – Rodin’s first, life-sized sculpture – was first exhibited in Belgium where he created it. It was so perfect that the critics immediately accused the relatively unknown artist of having used life casts. Striving for the perfect representation of the human body was perhaps a consequence of the fact that Rodin modelled the work right after returning from a trip to Florence where he had admired the masters of Renaissance sculpture.