Bronze Age

myminifactory

Rodin created a physically perfect character who is at an almost childish stage in the spiritual.  Initially he wanted to present the man as a wounded man, but influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and nature in the Brussels area, the Man of the Forest would make it. Eventually the work was given the Bronze Age title. At the end of his stay in Brussels (1871–77), Rodin wanted to make a work that would definitively establish his reputation as a sculptor. A 22-year-old Flemish soldier was his model for eighteen months. The attitude and movement of the man are those of the man who becomes self-aware and is ready for the future. The vibrancy of the work led some of the Salon des Artistes français to suspect that Rodin would have directly molded to his model.