The Thinker
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The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, his right elbow placed upon his left thigh, with the back of
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The Thinker in The Gates of Hell at the Musée Rodin
Le Penseur (1904) in the Musée Rodin, Paris
Rodin's model, the boxer Jean Baud
The Gates of Hell
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The Gates of Hell is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by the French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands
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…in profile are often used to indicate philosophy and other practices of contemplation or introspection. Rodin conceived the figure as part of his work The Gates of Hell commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings was made in 1904, and is now exhibited at the Musée Rodin, in Paris…
At the Museo Soumaya
Porte de l'Enfer
The Kunsthaus Zürich in Zürich
Musée d'Orsay in Paris