This exhibition is arranged around the argument that Michelangelo and Rodin, despite living centuries apart, had a shared mission: to use sculpture to capture the spirit, not merely the physical dimensions, of the human body (15 April–20 July). They had other things in common too: both artists were inspired by the sculptures of antiquity, left obvious traces of the creative act on their finished works and influenced generations of sculptors. Visitors are greeted by five arresting sculptures – including Michelangelo’s Dying Slave (1513–15) and Rodin’s The Age of Bronze (modelled in 1876), which mirror each other in contrapposto – before entering a room full of work by other artists that pays tribute to, or bears the influence of, the two sculptors. After that, nearly 200 works, including drawings and casts as well as marble, bronze and terracotta sculptures, bring home the extent of the masters’ innovations.
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