"first conceived the figure as part of his work ""The Gates of Hell"" commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not appear until 1904. ""The Thinker"" was initially named The Poet (), and was part of a large commission begun in 1880 for a doorway surround called ""The Gates of Hell"". Rodin based this on ""The Divine Comedy"" of Dante Alighieri, and most of the figures in the work represented the main characters in the poem with ""The Thinker"" at the center of the composition over the doorway and about larger than most of"
"Lorenzo Ghiberti Lorenzo Ghiberti (; 1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the ""Gates of Paradise"". Trained as a goldsmith and sculptor, he established an important workshop for sculpture in metal. His book of ""Commentarii"" contains important writing on art, as well as what may be the earliest surviving autobiography by any artist. Ghiberti was born in the year 1381, in Pelago, a Comune 20 km from Florence. It is said that Lorenzo"
"Torso of Adele Torso of Adele is an 1878-1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally modelled in plaster before being worked in terracotta. Judith Cladel (Rodin's friend and biographer) states that it arose from his study of caryatids. The model was probably the Italian Adèle Abruzzesi, one of Rodin's favourite models. The sculpture was only completed in 1889 by the addition of the legs and left arm, for use in the top left-hand corner of ""The Gates of Hell"". It does not appear in William Elborne's 1887 photographs of ""The Gates"" and so Rodin probably added it later."
"1569 by Vincenzo Danti, a sculptor from the school of Michelangelo. At his death in 1576 the group was almost finished. The group was finally completed with the addition of an angel by Innocenzo Spinazzi in 1792. Reproduction examples in situ A copy of the ""Gates of Paradise"" in The Harris Museum, Preston, UK The interior, which is rather dark, is divided into a lower part with columns and pilasters and an upper part with a walkway. The Florentines didn't spare any trouble or expense in decorating the baptistery. The interior walls are clad in dark green and white marble"
"The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides The Wood of the Self-Murderers: The Harpies and the Suicides is a pencil, ink and watercolour on paper artwork by the English poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827). The work was completed between 1824 and 1827 and illustrates a passage from the ""Inferno"" of the ""Divine Comedy"" by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). The work is part of a series which was to be the last set of watercolours Blake worked on before his death in August 1827. It is held in the Tate Gallery, London. Blake was commissioned in 1824"
"The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) The Kiss () is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal ""The Gates of Hell"", commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris. The couple were later removed from the ""Gates"" and replaced with another pair of lovers located on the smaller right-hand column. The sculpture, ""The Kiss"", was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's ""Inferno"" (Circle 2, Canto 5) who"
"casts now in the Musée Rodin in Paris, the Cantor Sculpture Garden at Stanford University, in the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia and the Museo Soumaya in Mexico . An autograph plaster copy dating to 1917 is also in the Musée d'arts de Nantes. The Three Shades The Three Shades (""Les Trois Ombres"") is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his ""The Gates of Hell"". He made several individual studies for the ""Shades"" before finally deciding to put them together as three identical figures gathered around a"
"his ""The Gates of Hell"". Kneeling Female Faun Kneeling Female Faun is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. A variant of his work ""The Martyr"", it is made of bronze. It was originally conceived in 1884 and exhibited in 1889 in Georges Petit's gallery. It exists in two contemporary variants. The first has animal features and an upright head, whilst the second leans her head to the right with a sweeter expression. Both were possibly modelled on Carmen Visconti from Fiesole in Italy, who modelled for Rodin between 1880 and 1893. It was used in the left half"
"simply showing the figure's facial expression. Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be"
"woman of this piece and in other female figures prominent in works he created in the mid-1880s. The work was reproduced several times in bronze and marble. A marble version dating to c. 1901 was sold at auction in May 2016 for a then record-breaking $20 million. Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of"
"it now remains in a temperature-controlled private collection in London. The sculpture was attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by art historian Carlo Pedretti in 1985, mainly due to a note Leonardo had written for himself in another work. On a c.1503-1504 worksheet from the Codex Windsor set of Leonardo's drawings are sketches of horses, believed to be part of a study for the painting of ""The Battle of Anghiari"". In the middle of the sheet is a note to ""make one of wax about finger long"", and the bucking posture of one of the horses is similar to the sculpture."
"The Shade (sculpture) The Shade, The Slave or The Titan is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880. The figure was later used in triplicate for his ""The Three Shades"", itself part of ""The Gates of Hell"". The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and ""The Three Shades"". The individual figure was cast by the Rudier Foundry in bronze with a black and green patina in 1967 - one of that edition is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City."
"The Shade (sculpture) The Shade, The Slave or The Titan is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived around 1880. The figure was later used in triplicate for his ""The Three Shades"", itself part of ""The Gates of Hell"". The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and ""The Three Shades"". The individual figure was cast by the Rudier Foundry in bronze with a black and green patina in 1967 - one of that edition is now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City."
"or ""Little Eve"", whose original is also in the Musée Rodin in Paris). He also reused the same figure of Eve in his marble ""Eve and the Serpent"" (1901) and his plaster ""Adam and Eve"" (1884). Eve (Rodin) Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. It shows Eve despairing after the Fall. In 1880 Rodin was commissioned to produce ""The Gates of Hell"", for which he exhibited ""Adam"" at the 1881 Paris Salon. In a sketch for ""Gates"" Rodin showed a central silhouette possibly intended as Eve (both the sketch and ""Gates"" are now in the"
"Andromeda (Rodin) Andromeda is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, named after Andromeda. It is one of the sculptures produced as part of his ""The Gates of Hell"" project and appears on the left door next to the personification of Day and on the right door as part of the group showing a falling winged genius. It was exhibited for the first time in 1889 at the Galerie Georges Petit in a joint exhibition with Claude Monet. The poet Rainer Maria Rilke praised the work's expressive quality, which he held to be more disperse, grandiose and mysterious than"
"Rodin worked throughout his life on ""The Gates of Hell"", a monumental sculptural group depicting scenes from Dante's ""Inferno"" in high relief. Often lacking a clear conception of his major works, Rodin compensated with hard work and a striving for perfection. He conceived ""The Gates"" with the ""surmoulage"" controversy still in mind: ""...I had made the ""St. John"" to refute [the charges of casting from a model], but it only partially succeeded. To prove completely that I could model from life as well as other sculptors, I determined...to make the sculpture on the door of figures smaller than life."" Laws"
"Eternal Springtime Eternal Springtime () is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. It was created at the same time as ""The Gates of Hell"" and originally intended to be part of it. Rodin originally conceived of ""Eternal Springtime"" as part of ""The Gates of Hell"", one of the representations of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta, but did not include it there because the happiness expressed by the lovers did not seem appropriate to the theme. ""The Kiss"", another famous sculpture by the artist, shares the same origin, but unlike ""The"
"aisle is the cenotaph of bishop Gherardo Gherardi (1703) and, in the right one, the tomb of bishop Alessandro Del Caccia (1650), and the funerary monument of bishop Leone Strozzi (1695), both by unknown sculptors. The pulpit was designed by Giorgio Vasari (1560). Next to the right entrance is a sculpted stoup attributed to Nicola Pisano's workshop. The Chapel of the Last Judgement houses fragments of a fresco by Giovanni da Ponte, dating to 1420-1425. The lateral wall fragments have recently been identified as a depiction of Dante's Inferno. The crypt is that of the Romanesque building, and was originally"
"by his friend, the painter John Linnell (1792–1882), to create a series of illustrations based on Dante's poem. Blake was then in his late sixties, yet by legend drafted 100 watercolours on the subject ""during a fortnight's illness in bed"". Few of them were actually coloured, and only seven gilded. He sets this work in a scene from one of the circles of Hell depicted in the ""Inferno"" (Circle VII, Ring II, Canto XIII), in which Dante and the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BCE) travel through a forest haunted by harpies—mythological winged and malign fat-bellied death-spirits who bear features of"
"The Three Shades The Three Shades (""Les Trois Ombres"") is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his ""The Gates of Hell"". He made several individual studies for the ""Shades"" before finally deciding to put them together as three identical figures gathered around a central point. The heads hang lower than it would be possible for them to do in reality, meaning that the neck and shoulders form an almost-horizontal plane. They were to be placed above the gates looking down on the viewer. It was later cast in bronze in several editions, with such"
"Avarice and Lust Avarice and Lust is a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived between 1885-1887, representing two of the seven capital sins and is part of his sculptural group ""The Gates of Hell"", where it can be found in the lower part of the right door. It's possible that the name was inspired by Victor Hugo's poem ""After reading Dante"": The piece is made of several parts: the torso of a falling man, whose extremely long arms encircle a woman who is partially covering her face, while he is reaching for some coins. He represents greed. His body"
"Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, USA Bust of the Saviour The Bust of the Saviour (""Salvator Mundi"") is the last sculpture created by baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed in 1679, when the artist was 80 years old. He left the sculpture in his will to his friend and patron Queen Christina of Sweden. Considered lost and ""rediscovered"" in 2001, it is currently held in the basilica of di San Sebastiano fuori le mura a Roma. However, there is some dispute over the authorship of the bust. The art historian Tomaso Montanari believes this version is not by Bernini, pointing instead"
"doorcase were added by Lorenzo Ghiberti in 1452. There is a Latin inscription on top of the door: ""Andreas Ugolini Nini de Pisis me fecit A.D. MCCCXXX"" (Andrea Pisano made me in 1330). The group of bronze statues above the gate depict ""The Beheading of St John the Baptist"". It is the masterwork of Vincenzo Danti from 1571. In 1401, a competition was announced by the ""Arte di Calimala"" (Cloth Importers Guild) to design doors which would eventually be placed on the north side of the baptistery. (The original location for these doors was the east side of the baptistery,"
"Ugolino and His Sons (Rodin) Ugolino and his sons is a plaster sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, part of the sculptural group known as ""The Gates of Hell"". As an independent piece, it was exhibited by its author in Brussels (1887), Edinburgh (1893), Genoa (1896), Florence (1897), Netherlands (1899) and in his own retrospection (1900). Ugolino della Gherardesca was an aristocrat and politician who lived in Pisa during the 13th century. After five years of government in his natal city, he was tried for betrayal and arrested along with his children and grandchildren. They were incarcerated at the Muda"
"now in the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City. The Kneeling Man The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his ""The Gates of Hell"" project. The work's arms and torso were reused for ""The Birth of Venus"", a female version - ""Gates"" features both the male and female versions in the tympanum and the upper part of the right-hand panel. The same male figure was also used as part of ""The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost"". It was cast in bronze with a brown and green patina in 1960 by the"
"The Kneeling Man The Kneeling Man is a work originally conceived in 1888 by the French artist Auguste Rodin for his ""The Gates of Hell"" project. The work's arms and torso were reused for ""The Birth of Venus"", a female version - ""Gates"" features both the male and female versions in the tympanum and the upper part of the right-hand panel. The same male figure was also used as part of ""The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost"". It was cast in bronze with a brown and green patina in 1960 by the Rudier Foundry. One of these bronze casts is"
"Domenico di Michelino Domenico di Michelino (1417–1491) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school and a follower of the style of Fra Angelico. He was born and died in Florence. Michelino predominantly painted scenes from the Bible. His most famous work can be found on the west wall of Florence's ""Duomo"" (cathedral) Santa Maria del Fiore, including ""La commedia illumina Firenze"" (""The Comedy Illuminating Florence""), showing Dante Alighieri and the ""Divina Commedia"" (""Divine Comedy""). Along with Dante and the city of Florence, the work depicts Hell, Mount Purgatory, the earthly Paradise (with Adam and Eve) and the celestial spheres."
"The Falling Man (Auguste Rodin) The Falling Man (in ) is a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin modeled in 1882 and is part of Rodin's emblematic group ""The Gates of Hell"". This figure represents the cumulative human forces, cast upon the eternal emptiness of Hell. In ""The Gates of Hell"", the sculpture appears in three different places: at the top of the left door, at the top of the right pilaster— the one holding ""Crouching Woman"" as part of ""I am beautiful""— and as the central piece of ""Avarice"" at the bottom of the Gates. Judging by the position"
"Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris on the remains of the Court of Accounts. Several artists were summoned to work on the project and Haquette introduced Rodin to his brother Georges Haquette, who in turn knew undersecretary Edmond Turquet. Turquet and Georges Haquette recommended Rodin for the project and commissioned him to produce ""The Gates of Hell"". On the reverse is inscribed ""À mon ami Haquette"" (To my friend Haquette) - it is thought to have been cast as a thank-you gift for the ""Gates of Hell"" commission. Bust of Maurice Haquette The Bust of Maurice Haquette is an 1883"
"Bust of the Saviour The Bust of the Saviour (""Salvator Mundi"") is the last sculpture created by baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed in 1679, when the artist was 80 years old. He left the sculpture in his will to his friend and patron Queen Christina of Sweden. Considered lost and ""rediscovered"" in 2001, it is currently held in the basilica of di San Sebastiano fuori le mura a Roma. However, there is some dispute over the authorship of the bust. The art historian Tomaso Montanari believes this version is not by Bernini, pointing instead to the version in the"
"this was only done after the artist's death and is found today (2016) at the gardens of Musée Rodin at the south side of the Hôtel Biron. In ""The Gates of Hell"", Ugolino's group is found on the lower half of the left door in such a way that it's not possible to observe the fourth child next to Ugolino's right leg. This is considered one of several examples of ""The Gates"" not having a single, unique perspective to be admired from. Ugolino and His Sons (Rodin) Ugolino and his sons is a plaster sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin,"
"Gallery, United Kingdom, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US. Particularly highly praised was his ""Francesca da Rimini"", painted in 1836, which illustrates a scene from Dante Alighieri's ""Inferno"". In the piece the entwined bodies of Francesca di Rimini and Paolo Malatesta swirl around in the never-ending tempest that is the second circle of Hell. The illusion of movement is created by the drapery that envelopes the couple, as well as by Francesca's flowing hair. These two figures create a diagonal line that intersects the majority of the canvas creating not only a sense of movement, but also giving the"
"The Barque of Dante The Barque of Dante (), sometimes known as Dante and Virgil in Hell (""Dante et Virgile aux enfers""), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and one of the works signalling a shift in the character of narrative painting from Neo-Classicism towards the Romantic movement. It was completed for the opening of the Salon of 1822 and currently hangs in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The painting is loosely based on fictional events taken from canto eight of Dante’s ""Inferno"". A leaden, smoky mist and the blazing City of the Dead form"