The House by the Cemetery
1984
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About. Transcript. Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell , 1880-1917, plaster (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker When the building, earlier on the site of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, was destroyed by fire during the Commune in 1871, plans were drawn up to replace it with a museum of decorative arts.
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- Beth Harris,Steven Zucker
- Has anyone ever discussed trying to finish this piece? Unfinished works are completed in literature,...It was put together and finished under the direction of Léonce Bénédite with Rodin's permission, but it wasn't finished until after his death. In P...
- The bronze cast in Philadelphia IS FINISHED. Should that be the subject of the video??The bronze casts, including the one in Philadelphia were cast after the sculptor's death. We chose to discuss the plaster in the Musée d'Orsay in P...
- why is it that when u look on a sculpture, there is so often the arms and heads cut off??They are more probably not cut off, but broke on their own. Natural stone has weak points called fissures that reduce the strength of the stone. If...
- Is anyone familiar with the Rodin 'Gates of Hell' in Philadelphia? Where does it fit in?from the web: It was the Philadelphia theater entrepreneur Jules Mastbaum who commissioned the first two bronze casts of the doors, one for his nat...
- Does anyone else see a Prometheus type cynicism in having the Thinker looking down upon The Gates of...I think what it means is that he is contemplating, what is in Hell , and thinking about if he might go there when he dies.
- They said in the beginning of the video that this was a plaster cast. Does that mean that this is no...The plaster exists prior to the bronze so one could say that this is a state prior to the bronze casts authorized by the artist. Its important to r...
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