Rodin

The Thinker, Gates of Hell

The sculptor who shattered academic convention. His figures writhe, strain, and emerge incomplete from the stone — The Thinker, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais — with a raw expressive power that made him the most important sculptor since Michelangelo.

Key works

• The Thinker1904— Originally part of the Gates of Hell
  Multiple casts — Musee Rodin, Paris; Rodin Museum, Philadelphia; others
• The Gates of Hell1880–1917— Dante's Inferno in bronze — never completed
  Musee Rodin, Paris (original plaster); Rodin Museum, Philadelphia; others

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