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Iris, Messenger of the Gods (French: "Iris, messagère des Dieux") (sometimes known as Flying Figure, or Eternal Tunnel) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin. A plaster model, created between 1891 and 1894, was cast in bronze by Fonderie Rudier at various times from about 1895. Iris is depicted with her right hand clasping her right foot and ...
Notable examples are The Walking Man, Meditation without Arms, and Iris, Messenger of the Gods. Rodin saw suffering and conflict as hallmarks of modern art. "Nothing, really, is more moving than the maddened beast, dying from unfulfilled desire and asking in vain for grace to quell its passion."
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 ...
English: Iris, Messenger of the Gods. Date: Taken in 2015: Medium: bronze: ... Messenger of the Gods'' by Auguste Rodin, bronze, modeled 1891, cast number and date ...
Standing Mercury is a bronze sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, first exhibited in 1888.Rodin depicts the mythological god Mercury, son of Maia and Jupiter—messenger of the gods and guide to the Underworld—as a young man, representing eloquence and reason.
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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.
Between 1884 and 1886 Rodin made nude studies of the six personalities. He then draped them with damp canvas. In this way, he wanted to better reproduce how the human figures looked clothed in sackcloth. Before the final sculpture, Rodin made two models and a study of Jacques de Wissant. He also sculpted a left hand. [1] [2]