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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
This figure represents the cumulative human forces, cast upon the eternal emptiness of Hell. [2] 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 [3] — and as the central piece of Avarice at the bottom of the Gates.
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.
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 ...