Romanelli, Mimi, 189
Romantic movement, 216
Rome, Italy, 36, 250
Rostand, Edmond, 196
Rostand, Maurice, 196
Rothenstein, William, 54, 151, 152
Rougon-Macquart novels (Zola), 51
Rousseau, Henri, 99
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 135
Royal Court Theatre, 139
Rubens, Peter Paul, 7
Russian Empire, 28, 248
Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 170
Rysselberghe, Théo Van, 219
Sacré-Cœur school, 173
Sade, Marquis de, 259
St. Denis, Ruth, 146
St. John the Baptist (Rodin), 169
St. Pölten military academy, 17–19, 103, 104
Salomé, Lou, see Andreas-Salomé, Lou
Salon d’Automne, 166, 174, 179–82, 183, 187
Salon de la Société Nationale, 51–52
Salon des Refusés, 33
Salpêtrière (Paris hospital), 49–50
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 219
Saturday Review, 139
Schaer, Alfred, 190
Schéhérazade, 196
Schiele, Egon, 145
Schiller, Friedrich, 17, 103
Schröder, Martha, 70
Seagull, The (Chekhov), 64
Secession Exhibition (Vienna, 1902), 74
“Self-Portrait from the Year 1906” (Rilke), 156
Serbia, 248
Serf, The (Matisse), 169
Seurat, Georges, 6
Shakespeare and Company, 213
Shaw, George Bernard, 139–43, 143, 151, 152
Sieber, Carl, 109, 259
Simmel, Georg, 23, 122–23, 124, 125, 126, 145, 146, 164, 165
Simon, Constant, 11–12
Sistine Chapel, 36
Society of Men and Letters, 45, 141
Socrates, 132
Sonnets to Orpheus (Rilke), 258
Sorbonne, 80
Spain, Rodin and, 126, 167
Steichen, Edward, 41, 52, 61, 142, 169–70
Stieglitz, Alfred, 170
Stein, Gertrude, 172
Stein, Leo, 180
Strait is the Gate (Gide), 202
surmoulage, 37–38
Switzerland, Rilke and, 256–63, 257, 261
Symbolists, 93, 244
Tardieu, Charles, 37
Tellegen, Lou, 152
Théâtre de la Gaîté, 34
Thinker, The (Rodin), viii, 36, 40–41, 61, 75, 135–36, 138, 141, 151, 152, 243, 252
Panthéon installation of, 135–36, 138, 141, 151, 152
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud), 145
Thurn und Taxis, Marie von, 203–5, 208, 217, 223, 224, 237, 238, 251
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 25, 209
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich, 151
Timioara, Romania, 104
Tirel, Marcelle, 228, 252
Titchener, Edward, 22
Titian, 7, 206
Tolstoy, Leo, 28–29, 64, 84, 106, 182, 202
Tolstoy, Sophia, 29
Torso of Belvedere (Apollonios), 40, 209
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 163, 191
Trakl, Georg, 250
Trocadéro Museum, 164, 166–67
Tunisia, Rilke and, 220–21
“Turning” (Rilke), 247
Turquet, Edmond, 38
Ugolino, 40
Valerie (Rilke girlfriend), 19
Valéry, Paul, 53, 93
Varèse, Edgard, 126–27, 129
Velde, Henry van de, 219
Venice Biennale (1902), 97
Venus de Milo, 92, 93
Versailles, Château de, 132
Viareggio, Italy, 111–14
Victoria and Albert Museum, 250
Villa des Brillants (Rodin villa), 83–90, 91, 106–7
Villa Montmorency (Paris, France), 218
Vischer, Robert, 22
Vision of St. John, The (Greco), 167
“Visions of Christ” cycle (Rilke), 26
Vlaminck, Maurice de, 179
Vogeler, Heinrich, 63–64, 70, 114, 118
Vogue, 149
Voltaire, 135
Wagner, Richard, 176
Wagner, Siegfried, 24
Walking Man, The (Rodin), 61, 169, 194
Wassermann, Jakob, 24, 26
Weber, Max, 172
Weber, Nicholas Fox, 260
Weimar, Germany, Nietzsche Archive in, 219
weltinnenraum (“worldinnerspace”), 260–61
Westerwede, Germany, 70
Westhoff, Clara, 131, 134
Andreas-Salomé and, 69, 123–24, 137, 160–61, 200–201
Becker’s childbirth and, 187
Becker’s death and, 188
Becker’s estrangement from, 68–69, 71–72
Egypt and, 161–62, 177, 220
father’s death and, 127
Munich and, 56, 221, 238, 240–41
Paris and, 55, 56–59, 62, 97–98, 104–7, 111, 112, 114, 124, 175, 190, 191, 240, 254
psychoanalysis and, 221, 238
Rilke’s courtship of, 65–69
Rilke’s divorce from, 221–22
Rilke’s letters to, 63, 69, 83, 88, 90, 125, 156, 160–61, 178, 181, 182, 183, 185–86, 187, 193–94, 208–9, 221, 254
Rilke’s marriage to, 70, 70, 160–61, 162, 176, 189, 217, 221–22
Rilke’s posthumous works and, 109
Rilke’s “Requiem to a Friend” and, 198
Rilke’s Rodin monograph and, 74, 113–14
Rodin and, 58, 75, 114, 125, 175, 191, 240, 246
Rodin’s death and, 253
Worpswede and, 56, 57, 64–75, 73, 118–19, 124, 177, 178, 187, 188, 217
Wharton, Edith, 150
When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen), 48
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 150
Whitney, Sarah, 55
“Why Sculpture Is Boring” (Baudelaire), 33
Wilde, Oscar, 61, 141, 176, 214
Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 250
Windows (Rilke), 260
Winged Victory of Samothrace, 93
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 251
Wolff, Kurt, 258
Woman with a Hat (Gide), 214
World of Art, 64
“worldinnerspace” (weltinnenraum), 260–61
World’s Fair (1878), 164
World’s Fair (1900), 58–62, 60, 63, 86, 128, 153
World War I, 212, 236, 247–52, 249, 254, 255
Worpswede, Germany, 62, 63–70, 106
Becker and, 56, 57, 64–67, 71–72, 105, 125–26, 155, 187–88
Kalckreuth and, 198
Rilke and, 64–70, 71, 74, 94, 114, 118–19, 120, 126
Rilke’s monograph on artists in, 70, 74, 118–19
Westhoff and, 56, 57, 64–75, 73, 118–19, 124, 177, 178, 187, 188, 217
Worringer, Wilhelm, 23, 163–66, 259
Wright, H. T. Tobias A., 113
Wundt, Wilhelm, 21
Yeats, William Butler, 145
Young, Ella, 145
Zola, Émile, 4, 45, 51, 52, 53–54, 135
Zuloaga, Ignacio, 97, 107, 121, 126, 167
Zweig, Stefan, 28, 45, 103, 119
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