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The Man with the Broken Nose. Auguste Rodin. The Man with the Broken Nose would later become The Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose when the back of the head broke off, due to the freezing conditions in Rodin's studio. Partly to exonerate himself of the previous allegations, Rodin made this figure larger than life-size. The Age of Bronze. This condition would define much of his early life and because of it Auguste Rodin failed to excel in academia.

However, he immediately found a passion for drawing and had his first art lesson at the age of ten.

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By , in an attempt to help his son, Jean-Baptiste Rodin sent Auguste to a boarding school run by his uncle in Beauvais. At this time Auguste Rodin also visited museums and Gobelins tapestry workshops where he studied drawing ancient sculpture. Here he tried working with clay for the first time and found himself to be adept at modeling and by the age of 17 he had won two prizes.

Working Life: By Auguste Rodin had begun to work commercially in order to help support his family. As many of the parks and courtyards of Paris were being transformed with monumental sculptures, Rodin had no problem finding work in the busy sculpture workshops.