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Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk. [4] He was largely self-educated, [5] and began to draw at age 10.
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 ...
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...