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No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber. The bloodhounds never give cry. Yet still the Believer is not convinced. "But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensible to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which he loves."
The Thinker (originally titled The Poet, after Dante) was to become one of the best-known sculptures in the world. The original was a 27.5-inch (700 mm) high bronze piece created between 1879 and 1889, designed for the Gates ' lintel , from which the figure would gaze down upon Hell.
Ninian Niven was born in 1799 in Kelvingrove, Glasgow.His father, also Ninian Niven, was a gardener at Keir House near Stirling, and travelled to the Cape of Good Hope twice collecting plants for George Hibbert and the Empress Josephine of France.
The Lost Gardens of Heligan (Cornish: Lowarth Helygen, meaning willow tree garden) are located near Mevagissey in Cornwall, England and are considered to be amongst the most popular in the UK. [citation needed] The gardens are typical of the 19th century Gardenesque style with areas of different character and in different design styles.
the gardens of the Musée Rodin in Paris, cast 1926 and given to the museum in 1955; Kunstmuseum in Basel, cast 1943 and installed in 1948; the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, cast 1943 and installed in 1966; the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, cast 1953 and installed in 1959; [2]
The Thinker (French: Le Penseur), by Auguste Rodin, is a bronze sculpture depicting a nude male figure of heroic size, seated on a large rock, leaning forward, right elbow placed upon the left thigh, back of the right hand supporting the chin in a posture evocative of deep thought and contemplation.
Freethought (sometimes spelled free thought) is an unorthodox attitude or belief. [1]A freethinker holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, [2] and should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation.
The sculpture garden was founded in 1967. It spans more than five acres and has more than 70 international sculptures, by figural and abstract artists such as Jean Arp , Deborah Butterfield , Alexander Calder , Barbara Hepworth , Jacques Lipchitz , Henry Moore , Isamu Noguchi , Auguste Rodin , David Smith , Claire Falkenstein , Gaston Lachaise ...