We start with a famous thought.  We end with a famous kiss.

Rodin’s Thinker greats you in the courtyard of the Rodin House in Paris.  And so he will be the introduction to this post of some of Rodin’s more sensual statuary, as found in the Rodin House, continuing my informal series of Sensual Statues in Paris.

This post will conclude with Rodin’s Kiss, getting particularly close and intimate with that masterwork of sensuality.

But first let’s enter the house and join the other tourists wandering the halls and taking in the statuary.

And as we did before, we will choose music from ye olde sensual classics cd:

Sensual Classic #5: Ravel – Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

Here a kiss, there a kiss.  But for THE KISS itself, you must scroll through to the end…

Sensual Classic #6: Schubert: Impromptu Opus 90/3 – Andante

“You gonna take that picture?”

That position seems particularly awkward and oppressive from this angle:

Finally, let’s approach The Kiss:

Get rather close…

And raise the camera to an angle above where our own eyes could see…