Don't miss the next FOA webinar, "'An elegance of
spirit adorns
all its
works.':
Auguste Rodin
and the Art of
Ancient
Egypt,"
presented by Carl
Walsh on
Wednesday,
February 18th
at
7:00 PM ET.
This webinar
will be free
and open to
the public.
Registration
through Zoom
(with a valid
email address)
is required.
Most people would not conceive of any
connection
between the
works of the
master French
sculptor
Auguste Rodin
(1840–1917)
and the art of
ancient Egypt.
The two
certainly
present
radically
different
bodily
aesthetics,
divorced by
vast temporal
and cultural
contexts. How
then, can we
see them as
meaningfully
related? This
is one of the
key questions
framing the
current
exhibition Rodin’s
Egypt,
now on display
at the
Institute for
the Study of
the Ancient
World at New
York
University, in
collaboration
with the Musée
Rodin in
Paris, until
March 15,
2026. In this
talk, Dr.
Walsh will
discuss how
Rodin became
interested in
ancient
Egyptian art
in his waning
years and the
profound—if
subtle—impact
it had on the
sculptor’s
practice
through the
objects which
you can see in
the
exhibition.
