Gustave Courbet, Stonebreakers, 1849

Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873

Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze, 1876

------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Collection Visual Resources Collection Creator Rodin, Auguste Creator/Era Dates 1840-1917 Creator Nation France Creator Role sculptor, draftsman, artist Title The Gates of Hell Variant Title La Porte de l'Enfer Date 1880-1917 Style/Period Post Impressionism Classification Sculpture Technique casting Material/Medium bronze Height 550 Width 366 Depth 79 Repository Name Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich Subject Death Subject Hell Description Rodin's Gates of Hell resulted from an August 1880 commission from the Directorate of Fine Arts for a monumental door to be decorated with low reliefs inspired by The Divine Comedy of Dante. The image seen here was cast between 1927 and 1928. Assigned Terms Figure Groups Assigned Terms Allegorical Assigned Terms Christian Assigned Terms Mythological Image Source Hunter, Jacobus, and Wheeler, Modern Art, Third Edition Revised and Expanded, p. 65, pl. 91 Rights Educational Use (Can be Printed) on Closed Network Country France Century 19th C.

Rodin, The Gates of Hell, 1880-1917

Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1897

James Ensor, The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889, 1888

Paul Sérusier, Landscape in the Bois d’Amour (The Talisman), 1888

Odilon Redon, Roger and Angelica, 1910

Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondences,” 1857, from The Flowers of Evil Count Lautréamont, “First Song of Maldoror,” from The Songs of Maldoror, 1869 Lautréamont also wrote famously of the fantasy of “the chance juxtaposition of an umbrella and a sewing machine on a dissecting table.” Arthur Rimbaud, “Vowels,” 1871 Paul Verlaine, “Art Poétique,” 1874 Stéphane Mallarmé, “The Afternoon of a Faun,” 1876 (Mallarmé is also well known for his dictum to artists: “Paint, not the thing itself, but the effect it produces.”)

J-K Huysmans, Against Nature, 1884, a novel of excessive aestheticism

Max Ernst, Ubu Imperator, 1923

Dora Maar, Père Ubu, 1936

Joan Miró, The Birth of Ubu, 1966