------------- 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
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.”)
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