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Auguste Rodin — Sculptor, 1840–1917
Rejected three times by the École des beaux-arts, he worked twenty years for others before The Age of Bronze made his name. His fragments and his monuments caused scandals; fame came around 1900. He was buried at Meudon beneath his Thinker. (Editorial synthesis)
Auguste Rodin was born on 12 November 1840. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Auguste Rodin was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Auguste Rodin died on 17 November 1917. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Auguste Rodin died in Meudon. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Auguste Rodin: The Thinker. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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