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Rodin Museum

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1925–1929, Paul P. Cret. N. 22nd St. and Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.
  • (Photo by Andrew Hope)
  • (Photo by Andrew Hope)

Cret re-created the facade of Rodin's studio near Paris as the backdrop to a re-creation of Rodin's tomb surmounted by his best-known sculpture, The Thinker. Beyond the screen is a perfect small French forecourt with a central reflecting pool behind which stands the museum, Cret's elegant limestone frame for Rodin's masterwork The Gates of Hell. The collection numbering more than one hundred pieces was assembled by Jules E. Mastbaum, the early-twentieth-century movie theater mogul, who began collecting Rodin's work in 1923 and who commissioned the museum as a gift to the people of Philadelphia two years later.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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What's Nearby

Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Parkway House
Free Library of Philadelphia
Logan Circle and Swann Fountain
Four Seasons Hotel and One Logan Square

Citation

George E. Thomas, "Rodin Museum", [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-PH122.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 113-113.

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