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RODIN ~ EYE AND HAND

19 February 2011

Lovers’ Hands

1904, Marble

Auguste Rodin

“Light serves, in conformity with depressions and reliefs,

to give the eye the same sensation that the hand receives from touch.”

Auguste Rodin, from Rodin: The Man and his Art, with Leaves from his Notebook

by J. Cladel

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