Full name: Naked Came I: A Novel of Rodin

Author: David Weiss Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780340178225 9787515506906 0340178221 7515506903

Naked Came I portrays Rodin as driven to be an artist because his temperament would allow him to be nothing else. It shows him as a friend with other Parisian artists such as Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, and those of the Second French Empire associated with the Salon des Refuses: they were generally outside the Paris art establishment, and had been refused admission to the Ecole des Beaux Arts.