François-Auguste-René Rodin (Paris, November 12, 1840-Meudon, November 17, 1917) was a French sculptor of contemporary Impressionism.

From the academicism of the neoclassical school of sculpture was not only the sculptor responsible for ending more than two centuries of search for mimesis in the three-dimensional arts, but also gave a new direction to the design of the monument and public sculpture. Because of this, Rodin was called in art history as "the first modern sculptor»