VII THE GOTHIC GENIUS THE WORK OF RODIN I THE STUDY OF THE CATHEDRALS--INFLUENCE OF THE GOTHIC ON THE ART OF RODIN--"SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST" (1880)--"THE GATE OF HELL" II "THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS" (1889)--RODIN AND VICTOR HUGO--THE STATUE OF BALZAC (1898) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Rodin photographed on the steps of the Hotel Biron Frontispiece Portrait of a Young Girl La Pucelle Minerva Psyche The Adieu Rodin in His Studio at the Hotel Biron Representation of France The Man with the Broken Nose Caryatid Man Awakening to Nature The Kiss Bust of the Countess of W---- The Poet and the Muse The Thinker Adolescence Portrait of Rodin Head of Minerva The Bath The Broken Lily Portrait of Madame Morla Vicuñha "La Pensée" Hotel Biron, View from the Garden Rodin Photographed in the Court of the Hotel Biron Portrait of Mrs. X Rodin in His Garden The Poet and the Muses The Tower of Labor Headless Figure Rodin's House and Studio at Meudon The Tempest The Village Fiancée Metamorphosis According to Ovid Eve Rodin at Work in the Marble Peristyle of the Studio at Meudon Statue of Bastien-Lepage Danaiade Portrait Bust of Victor Hugo Monument to Victor Hugo Statue of Balzac The Head of Balzac The Studio at Meudon Romeo and Juliet Spring Bust of Bernard Shaw A Fête Given in Honor of Rodin by Some of His Friends. THE MAN AND HIS ART THE CAREER OF RODIN Several years have already gone by since the career of Rodin attained its full growth. From now on, therefore, it can be envisaged as a whole, and we can trace the formation and the unfolding of his complex talent and disentangle the influences that have directed and sustained it. In the course of the chapters that follow, Rodin, with the authority, the calm strength, and the lucidity that characterize his thought, often speaks himself of these influences, but rather in a casual, gossipy, reminiscent vein, reflecting his personal observations. He does not attempt to disengage the broad lines by which he has reached the summit of art, or to map out, so to speak, that scheme of his intellectual development which so naturally appertains to the man who has reached the apogee of talent and which he contemplates with the satisfaction of a strategist face to face with the plan of the battles he has won.