This image of lovers embodies the poetry of youthful sensuality. Rodin employed a special method of working the stone in the original work, generalising form, not finishing the marble in the hollows. The outline seems to dance and the white marble to let light into its surface, creating an impression of purity and chastity in a scene of love. Rodin embodied both love and sorrow, despair and recollections of the Day of Judgment in his modern day sculpture.
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