{"id":38241,"date":"2018-04-24T01:01:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/24\/astonishing-ravishing-sublime-rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-review\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T01:01:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T23:01:04","slug":"astonishing-ravishing-sublime-rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=38241","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Astonishing, ravishing, sublime&#039; \u2013 Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Museum, LondonThe Frenchman made some of the best loved sculptures in the world. But his magnificent work is still no match for the Parthenon Marbles. My god, what art!The British Museum\u2019s astonishing, ravishing, sublime new exhibition \u2013 I could add a lot more superlatives and still be understating it \u2013 brings you face to face with the most revolutionary sculptures ever created. It also has some fine works by Auguste Rodin.The wonder hits you as soon as you enter and find yourself confronted by Rodin\u2019s The Kiss sharing a pedestal with two goddesses carved two and a half millennia ago. The Kiss is, well, it\u2019s The Kiss \u2013 one of the most sensual and captivating masterpieces of modern times, a provocatively erotic blast of free love that shook Paris in 1882. It is one of the best-known, best-loved sculptures in the world. And those old Greek goddesses blow it away. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/apr\/24\/rodin-and-the-art-of-ancient-greece-british-museum-london-review-parthenon-marbles\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Astonishing, ravishing, sublime&#039; \u2013 Rodin and the Art of Ancient Greece review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Museum, LondonThe Frenchman made some of the best loved sculptures in the world. But his magnificent work is still no match for the Parthenon Marbles. My god, what art!The British Museum\u2019s astonishing, ravishing, sublime new exhibition \u2013 I could add a lot more superlatives and still be understating it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}