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Éve au rocher in bronze, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris. 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 Musée Rodin), but in October 1881 he decided to produce Eve as a pair for Adam, with the two sculptures ...
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.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011) The Thinker in front of the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The Thinker, originally a part of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, exists in several versions. The original size and the later monumental size versions were both created by Rodin, and the most valuable ...
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 ...
Although busy with The Gates of Hell, Rodin won other commissions. He pursued an opportunity to create a historical monument for the town of Calais. For a monument to French author Honoré de Balzac, Rodin was chosen in 1891. His execution of both sculptures clashed with traditional tastes and met with varying degrees of disapproval from the ...
Eve (Rodin) F. Fugitive Love; G. The Gates of Hell; I. I Am Beautiful (Rodin) K. The Kiss (Rodin sculpture) M. The Martyr (sculpture) The Mature Age; Meditation ...
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Musée Rodin, Paris 57.5 x 34 x 36 Jean-Baptiste Rodin, Père de l'artiste [9] [10] 1865 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 41 x 22.8 x 24 More images: Jeune femme, chapeau fleuri de roses [11] 1864 Terracotta Musée Rodin, Paris 52 x 32 x 31 More images: Tête de jeune fille [12] 1865 to 1870 Terracotta 40 x 18 x 17 Buste de jeune fille [13] 1865 to ...