The entirety of your post is baseless, so I won't address every point, but: Camille Claudel was intricately part of Rodin's success and artistic breakthroughs

The entirety of your post is baseless, so I won't address every point, but: Camille Claudel was intricately part of Rodin's success and artistic breakthroughs Nonsense. His strongest work had nothing to do with her, and was conceived, commissioned, and started before he had ever met her. But I and others would argue that Rodin stole techniques and inspiration from Camille Claudel This is so patently false and salacious that it's infuriating. Citations please. Rodin's technique was revolutionary, original, and is now firmly grounded in the cannon - what are your qualifications to make this judgement? Can you please cite these historians or provide some sort of literature? She was never in her lifetime recognized as a great artist (or at the least, Rodin's equal) Because she was not a great artist, nor his equal. Her works are fine, but they are utterly derivative of his. One cursory glance at any of her pieces proves this, and of course the critics of her time, and those after, have all made this same observation.