Top right is The Age of Bronze by Rodin. When it was exhibited, it was so realistic that Rodin was accused of casting over a living model, which he later disproved with photographic evidence. Rodin is also notably the sculptor of such works as The Kiss and The Thinker, both part of his Gates of Hell masterpiece. Bottom left is the similar Dying Slave by Michelangelo, which I'll admit isn't as good, but it's still tremendously good, like all of his work.
The point of this post anyway was to see if anyone gets the same satisfaction over connecting two chronologically and geographically disparate phenomena of artistic brilliance by their form.
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Not sure if this is exactly what you were thinking about, but I do similarly enjoy finding similarities in passages of music, particularly if there's no apparent reason whatsoever for such an occurrence. Of course, the chronological and geological separation tends to be much less dramatic, but sometimes the pieces are very "distant" from one another in their styles and underlying musical philosophies.
Hannah and I visited the Rodin sculpture garden when we were at Stanford recently. If you get a chance, you should definitely go.
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