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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.
The recent finding of the "thinking" man seems to argue for the existence of a developed ideology of some type in this period, while it is impossible not to refer us to similar timeless types, such as the Karditsa Thinker of the Neolithic era, Thinker from Yehud of the Middle Bronze Age II, [10] or even to the Pensive Christ in modern times. [11]
São Paulo Museum of Art 66 x 80 More images: Camille Claudel [39] 1884 Bronze Musée Rodin, Paris 27 x 21 x 21 Young Mother: 1885 Bronze Museo Soumaya, Mexico City 38.8 x 26.7 x 36.5 More images: Young Mother in the Grotto: 1885 Plaster Philadelphia Museum of Art 36 x 25,5 x 22 More images: Young Woman with a Serpent: 1885 Bronze Musée Rodin ...
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 sculpture has been reproduced in marble, bronze and plaster, and in modern times cast in resin, both in full size and in miniature, and the subject in general was treated by Michelangelo. [7] Philippe Magnier produced a marble copy of the group ca 1684–87 for the gardens of Versailles – it was later moved to Marly , and is now in the ...
An Athlete Wrestling with a Python was the first of three bronze sculptures produced by the British artist Frederic Leighton. Completed in 1877, the sculpture was a departure for Leighton, and heralded the advent of a new movement, New Sculpture, taking a realistic approach to classical models. It has been described as a "sculptural masterpiece ...
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The illustrations of J. J. Grandville have been noted as an influence on his work. [4] Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [ 5 ] In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several text comics , like Les Travaux d'Hercule (1847), Trois artistes incompris et mécontents (1851), Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément (1851 ...