How did light affect the appearance of Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss?

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Portrait of Auguste Rodin standing indoors, wearing a buttoned, two-toned coat with a full beard and tousled hair, looking slightly to the side. — Auguste Rodin French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

In Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss, the artist utilized the translucent quality of the stone to enhance the work's emotional impact. When the sculpture is exhibited with light directed partly from the rear, the marble appears to glow, evoking the incandescence of the figures' passionate intensity.1