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1904 ; 120 years ago(1904) Medium. Bronze. The Thinker ( French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand ...
- The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a...
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- The Gates of Hell
The Gates of Hell, sculpture by Auguste Rodin, 1880–1917, cast in bronze posthumously; in the Kunsthaus Zürich. The Thinker was originally called The Poet and was conceived as part of The Gates of Hell, initially a commission (1880) for a pair of bronze doors to a planned museum of decorative arts in Paris. Rodin chose for his subject Dante ...
Thomas Fortune Ryan, principal founder of the Rodin collection at The Met, commissioned this cast from the sculptor’s studio. In a real sense, The Thinker is Rodin. Brutishly muscled yet engrossed in thought, coiled in tension yet loose in repose, the sculpture, according to one early twentieth-century critic, embodies both "dream and action."
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The Thinker. Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917) Cast made by Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1904. Transfered to the musée Rodin in 1922. Whenconceived in 1880 in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell, seated on the tympanum, The Thinkerwas entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which ...
Auguste Rodin. François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor [1] generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. [2] He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay.
The Thinker ( French: Le Penseur) (1902) is a bronze statue. It was made by the sculptor Auguste Rodin. It depicts a man sitting and thinking with his arms bent on his knee and his chin on his hand. Rodin first called the statue The Poet. It was part of a commission by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris to create a huge gate based on the ...
