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  1. The Gates of Hell - Wikipedia

    • 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. Several casts of the work were … 展开

    History

    The sculpture was commissioned by the Directorate of Fine Arts in 1880 and was meant to be delivered in 1885. … 展开

    Inspiration

    Rodin conceived that people would walk toward the work, perhaps up a flight of stairs, and be overwhelmed frontally by the massive gates, contemplating the experience of hell that Dante describes in his Inferno. Rodi… 展开

    Gallery

    • Variations of The Gates of Hell
    • The Kunsthaus Zürich in Zürich
    Musée d'Orsay in Paris
    The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo展开

    Outstanding figures

    The original sculptures were enlarged and became works of art of their own.
    The Thinker (Le Penseur), also called The Poet, is located above the door panels. One interpretation suggests that it might represent Dante … 展开

    Locations

    The original plaster was restored in 1917 and is displayed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. A series of plaster casts illustrating the development of the work is on view at the Musée Rodin in Meudon. Also in 1917, a model was used … 展开

    Further reading

    • Chevillot, Catherine; Marraud, Hélène; Pinet, Hélène; Adamson, John (transl.) (November 2014). Rodin: The Laboratory of Creation. Dijon: Éditions Faton. ISBN 9782878442007.
    • Elsen, Albert (1955). Rodin's Gates o… 展开

     
  1. 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 Alighie...
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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 Alighie...
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    The Gates of Hell (Les portes de l'enfer) is an Impressionist Plaster Sculpture created by François Auguste René Rodin from 1880 to 1890. It lives at the Rodin Museum in Paris.
    www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/francois-auguste …
  2. The Gates of Hell - Rodin Museum

    On August 16, 1880, Rodin received a commission to create a pair of bronze doors for a new decorative arts museum in Paris. Although the museum did not come to fruition and the doors were never fully realized, The Gates of Hell …

  3. The Gates of Hell - Musée Rodin

    The Gates of Hell occupied a unique place in Rodin’s oeuvre. Working feverishly on this project for several years, he created over 200 figures and groups that formed a breeding ground for ideas which he drew on for the rest of his …

  4. The Gates of Hell - Philadelphia Museum of Art

  5. Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell - Smarthistory

    It’s fitting that the plaster of this great unfinished sculpture, The Gates of Hell, is now on display at the d’Orsay, the former railway terminal that was built on this site instead of the museum of decorative arts and that, by lovely coincidence, …

  6. The Gates of Hell - Rodin Museum

  7. The Gates of Hell - Association for Public Art

    Standing at the entrance to the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia is the first bronze cast of Auguste Rodin’s The Gates of Hell. It was in 1880 that Rodin received the commission for a set of portals for a new Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris …

  8. New presentation of Rodin's « Gates of Hell » | Musée …

    Since fall 2021, an important and delicate operation has been taking place on the terrace located between the two towers, at the back of the nave: the relocation of Auguste Rodin's Gates of Hell. Leaning against a new cyma, this monumental …

  9. The Gates of Hell - Auguste Rodin, French, 1840

    Inspired by The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri (Italian, c. 1265–1324), Rodin planned to decorate the doors with characters that Dante met on his fictional journey through hell. The...

  10. The Gates of Hell | Musée Rodin Meudon

    The Gates of Hell Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) In 1880, Rodin received a state commission for a grand entrance to a planned museum of decorative arts, in the form of bronze doors decorated in low relief with illustrations of Dante’s Divine …