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    • The Thinker ( French : Le Penseur ) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, usually placed on a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning o… See more

    Year1904
    MediumBronze
    Origin

    The Thinker was initially named The Poet (French: Le Poète ), and was part of a large commission begun in 1880 for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell. Rodin based this … See more

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    The Thinker has been cast in multiple versions and is found around the world, but the history of the progression from models to castings is still not entirely clear. About 28 monum… See more

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  1. List of The Thinker sculptures - Wikipedia

    24 rows · This is a list of The Thinker sculptures made by Auguste Rodin. The …

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    • The Thinker | History, Description, & Facts | Britannica

      The Thinker, sculpture of a pensive nude male by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of his most well-known works. Many marble and bronze editions in several sizes were executed in Rodin’s lifetime and after, but the most famous version …

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    • The Thinker - Musée Rodin

      While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work. Enlarged in 1904, its colossal version proved even more popular: this image of a man lost …

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    • The Thinker (Le Penseur), - National Gallery of Art

      The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin's monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris.

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    • Auguste Rodin | The Thinker - The Thinker | French

      The Thinker. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800. The Thinker was made to sit over the lintel of Rodin’s monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell, contemplating the fate of the damned. Independent bronzes of The …

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    • The Thinker - Rodin Museum

      Auguste Rodin originally conceived a smaller version of this sculpture to sit atop his monumental bronze portal entitled The Gates of Hell (1880-1917). The figure was intended to represent Italian poet Dante Alighieri pondering The Divine …

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    • The Thinker - Rodin works

      Originally, 'The Thinker' - exhibited in Copenhagen in 1888 as 'The Poet' - was to represent Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divina Commedia, who - according to a popular anecdote - also used to sit and think on a rock in Florence called …

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    • The Thinker - Rodin Museum

      The Thinker. Modeled 1880-1881; cast 1924 Artist/maker: Auguste Rodin, French, 1840 - 1917. Cast by the foundry Alexis Rudier, Paris, 1874 - 1952. Rodin originally created this figure for the top of The Gates of Hell. The seated …

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    • The Thinker | Musée Rodin Meudon

      The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. The pose of this figure owes much to Carpeaux’s Ugolino …

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