Rainer Maria Rilke, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ illustrated (+ Auguste Rodin)

"Only when I saw an image of the Miletus torso, I understood what Rilke had seen” (Paul Claes, 1998).The poem (sonnet): “Archaïscher Torso Apollos” (1908) is discussed in conjunction with Rilke's appreciation for the work and ideas of Auguste Rodin.
Basic literature: Paul Claes - Het voorbeeldige gedicht (The exemplary poem). Raster. Nieuwe reeks. Jaargang 1998 (nrs. 81-84).
https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ras001199801_01/_ras001199801_01_0032.php
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Thumbnail image of Rilke: Leonid Pasternak 1928 – Rilke in Moscow (detail), posthumous portrait.
Sculptures:
00:11 - Apollo of the Belvedere, 120–140 AD (Rome)
00:39 - Torso, Roman copy after a Greek original from 430 BC, Basel CH
03:17 - Bust of Rilke while reading, Clara Rilke-Westhoff 1905
04:04 - Borghese Gladiator (Swordsman), Agasias, son of Dositheus (c100 BC), inspired by a bronze by Lysippos 390 – 306 BC, Louvre
04:36 - Saint John the Baptist, Rodin 1880, Los Angeles (cast c1914)
07:16 - The Weeping Lion (Le Lion Qui Pleure), Rodin 1881, black wax
08:37 - Antique Venus torso 2nd cent. BC, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
09:06 - Rodin's small copy of the aforementioned antique torso
09:29 - The Thinker (Le Penseur), Rodin 1903, plaster
09:54 - The Thinker, Rodin, at Rodin’s grave in Meudon, bronze
10:08 - The Thinker, Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris. bronze
10:44 - Large statuette of Aphrodite, Antiques collection Rodin
10:48 - The prayer (La prière) female torso, Rodin 1909
10:59 - Venus torso 1st-2nd cent AD, Antiques collection Rodin
11:15 - Male Torso, plaster (Petit Torse d'homme A), Rodin. conceived in 1895-1900
11:35 - Right foot (bronze), Antiques collection Rodin; Left foot (terracotta), Rodin
11:52 - Left hand holding an elongate object (marble), Antiques collection Rodin
11:56 - The Pianist’s Hand (Female left hand), Rodin, plaster
12:01 - Female right hand, Rodin 1890-1900, bronze
12:06 - The Clenched Hand, Rodin modeled c1885, bronze; The Hand of God, Rodin modeled 1896–1902, marble
12:28 - Rodin’s bozzetti (abattis), Rodin museum at Meudon
13:19 - Hands (bronze), Rodin
14:11 - Plaster cast of a male torso, Rodin
15:12 - Male torso in clay, Rodin
15:22 - Male torso in bronze, Rodin c1887, Petit Palais, Paris
15:35 - Saint John the Baptist, Rodin 1880, Rodin museum, Paris
15:59 - The Walking Man (L'Homme qui marche) plaster, Rodin 1907, Rodin museum, Paris
16:23 - The Walking Man bronze, Rodin 1905, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
16:31 - Fragmentary statues of Heracles and Apollo, Antiques collection Rodin
16:41 - Saint John the Baptist, Rodin 1881, Victoria and Albert museum, London
17:07 - The Inner Voice or Meditation without arms. Rodin, 1896-97, plaster
18:58 - Miletus Torso 480-470 BC, Louvre, Paris
19:39 - Doryphoros (Spear-bearer), Polykleitos, Roman copy of a lost Greek
Original, c440 BC, Napels
21:50 - Young man (kouros), Sanctuary of Asclepius , c540 BC, Louvre Paris
22:42 - Young man (kouros), Thera, plaster cast, Antiques collection Rodin
24:47 - Belvedere Torso, copy from the 1st century BC/AD of an older statue, probably dated to the early 2nd century BC, Vatican museums Rome
26:18 - Seated Ugolino, Rodin 1876, plaster

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