File:Auguste Rodin - The Thinker - 1979.138 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif

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Auguste Rodin: The Thinker   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Auguste Rodin  (1840–1917)  wikidata:Q30755 s:es:Autor:Auguste Rodin q:en:Auguste Rodin
 
Auguste Rodin
Description French sculptor, drawer, photographer, painter and printmaker
Date of birth/death 12 November 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 17 November 1917 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Meudon
Work location
Paris, Meudon
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artist QS:P170,Q30755
Title
The Thinker
Description
Rodin originally conceived The Thinker as a depiction of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) sitting in the upper center of a monumental sculptural doorway titled The Gates of Hell (below). Inspired by Dante’s description of a journey through the underworld in his epic poem The Divine Comedy (about 1320), The Thinker contemplates mankind’s fate while gazing at a host of damned figures writhing in anguish below. Stripped of clothing, the figure’s rippling muscles convey an inner, animating life force symbolic of mental activity or creative effort. The figure leans forward, as if ready to spring from his perch, yet seems simultaneously caught in the inaction of deep thought. Rodin produced independent versions of The Thinker, first in this original size and later in a monumental version.
Date 1875
date QS:P571,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Bronze
Dimensions Overall: 70.8 x 34.9 x 59.7 cm (27 7/8 x 13 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Accession number
1979.138
Place of creation France, 19th century
Credit line Gift of Alexandre P. Rosenberg
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.138

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