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The Gates of Hell (French: La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures.
The Three Shades (Les Trois Ombres) is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his The Gates of Hell. [1] [2] 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 low so that the neck and shoulders ...
The sculpture was conceived around 1880 and used in triplicate as a part of the artist's large-scale work The Gates of Hell. [1] [3] It evolved into both the full size sculpture The Three Shades, and a separate sculpture of a single figure, The Shade.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 197 x 76 x 77 More images: Eve: 1881 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 173,5 x 66,5 x 75,5 More images: Crouching Woman: 1880 to 1882 Bronze Los Angeles County Museum of Art 31.75 x 25.4 x 17.78 More images: Ugolino and His Sons: 1881 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 46.5 x 38.5 x 44.2 More images: Bust of Alphonse ...
The Gates of Hell comprised 186 figures in its final form. [39] Many of Rodin's best-known sculptures started as designs of figures for this composition, [9] such as The Thinker, The Three Shades, and The Kiss, and were only later presented as separate and independent works.
Despair (French: Le Désespoir) or Despair at the Gate (French: Désespoir de la Porte) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin that he conceived and developed from the early 1880s to c. 1890 as part of his The Gates of Hell project. The figure belongs to a company of damned souls found in the nine circles of Hell described by Dante in The Divine Comedy.
Auguste Rodin was commissioned to make a pair of bronze doors to symbolize the gates of hell. He received the commission on August 20, 1880, for a new art museum in Paris, to exhibit at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, which ultimately did not open; however in 1900, some of them were part of his first solo exhibition in Paris.
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 retrospective in 1900.