La Porte de l’Enfer (The Gates of Hell) by Auguste Rodin
Ornate, bronze door panels and frame showing figures and scenes in relief.
Unfinished, Kunsthaus Zürich Art Museum (Switzerland)
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In 1880, Rodin was commissioned by the French government to create a set of bronze doors for a new building that was to be a museum of decorative arts in Paris. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno (from the Divine Comedy), the doors depict a mass of writhing figures enduring the torments of hell.
Rodin could never bring himself to finish this magnum opus. The museum was never built and so the Gates became an autonomous artwork — ‘the source of almost everything that met with success,’ as the artist later reminisced.
Indeed, many of Rodin’s greatest works, including The Kiss, and The Thinker, started as designs of figures for The Gates of Hell, and were only later presented as separate and independent works.
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