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The Kiss (French: Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.. The embracing nude couple depicted in the sculpture appeared originally as part of a group of reliefs decorating Rodin's monumental bronze portal The Gates of Hell, commissioned for a planned museum of art in Paris.
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 couple appeared in several of Rodin's initial drawings between 1880 and 1881 for The Gates of Hell. In the first version he placed them in the centre, in a work that later appeared on its own as The Kiss. This piece was removed from Gates by the artist in 1886 and replaced by a new version, closer to the description of the lovers in Dante's ...
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.
The gates of hell are various places on the surface of the world that have acquired a legendary reputation for being entrances to the underworld. Often they are found in regions of unusual geological activity, particularly volcanic areas, or sometimes at lakes, caves, or mountains.
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The sculpture is also part of Rodin's monumental group The Gates of Hell, where it can be found in the right gate.Even though the group was already recognized on its own, Rodin decided to put it in his Gates partly to replace another iconic sculpture: The Kiss which had been removed due to its theme being inconsistent with the rest of the group.
Forty-five Halloweens ago, on Oct. 28, 1978, members of the KISS Army across the nation gathered around their rabbit-eared TV sets for what was supposed to be the television event of the year.