Exhibition guide
Two unrivaled masters of Western sculpture dialogue across the centuries: Michelangelo and Rodin. Their works, which embody the strength of the body and the depth of the soul, meet in an unprecedented confrontation where both continuities and ruptures are revealed.
Visit details
- Dates: From Wednesday April 15, 2026 to Monday July 20, 2026: Wednesday, Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
- Venue: Musée du Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, Paris
- Price: De 0 à 32 euros.
- Audience: All audiences
- Source: Event page
About the exhibition
Organized into five sections: Two legendary artists; Nature and Antiquity: reinventing the model; Non finito; Body and soul; Energy and life - the exhibition brings together marbles, bronzes, plasters, terracottas, casts and a very rich graphic production. The course emphasizes the formal and conceptual issues which lead to the same ambition: to make visible the interior energy of the body.
The body appears as an envelope and skin of the soul, living matter subject to time and gesture. The journey also questions the posterity of these gestures: how did the rewriting of the ancient and the use of bodies prepare the ruptures of the 20th century? By showing connections, borrowings and diversions, the exhibition offers a sensitive reading of the myths of the two geniuses and invites us to rethink sculpture not as an element that “forms” but as a laboratory of artistic innovations.