How should one live? This existential question shook the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Amid dark days plagued by financial hardship and the departure of his poetic muse, Rilke desperately ...

Rodin began exhibiting The Thinker on its own in 1888, even while it remained part of The Gates of Hell. When he enlarged it to a monumental size in 1904, the sculpture took on a more universal figure ...