Celebrated as one of the fathers of modern European sculpture, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) created expressive and emotive human bodies in works that abandoned narrative and embraced the subject and materiality of his medium.

While his revolutionary approach to the body broke from neoclassical tradition, he revered the works of antiquity, in which he saw the truest expressions of nature.

Rodin was particularly enthralled by the art of ancient Egypt, amassing a collection of more than 1,000 Egyptian objects. The book reveals the profound influence Egyptian art had on Rodin’s work.