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The Kiss (Le Baiser) by Auguste Rodin

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Nineteenth-century viewers and critics were immediately taken with Rodin’s three-dimensional group, entitled Paolo and Francesca , the passionate lovers from the fifth canto of Dante’s Inferno . When one enthusiastic critic referred to it as The Kiss , the new title stuck, and the association with Dante’s ill-fated lovers gave way to a more contemporary, universal response to their passionate embrace.
In 1902 Rodin presented it as a souvenir to a loyal American patron, Kate Simpson

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Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children by Sir Joshua Reynolds

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Reynolds sought to elevate British painting, including portraiture, to the lofty realms of classical expression. After traveling to Rome, Florence, Bologna, and Venice, Reynolds became the first president of the Royal Academy, which had been founded in 1768.
Aelterer Englischer Kunst, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1908, no. 68 (souvenir

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