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The Gates of Hell, the Glossary

The Gates of Hell (La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.^[1]

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1917 sculptures
Bronze doors
Bronze sculptures in Japan
Bronze sculptures in Paris
Bronze sculptures in the United Kingdom
Bronze sculptures in the United States
Cultural depictions of Francesca da Rimini
Sculptures based on Inferno (Dante)
Sculptures in the Musée Rodin
Sculptures of Adam and Eve

Adam (Rodin)

Adam is an 1880-1881 statue of Adam by Auguste Rodin, first exhibited at the Paris Salon that year entitled The Creation of Man. The Gates of Hell and Adam (Rodin) are sculptures by Auguste Rodin, sculptures in the Musée Rodin and sculptures of Adam and Eve.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

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Cantor Arts Center

Cantor Arts Center (officially Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, previously the Stanford University Museum of Art) is an art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States.

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Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (– September 14, 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and widely known and often referred to in English mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher.

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Despair (sculpture)

Despair (Le Désespoir) or Despair at the Gate (Désespoir de la Porte) is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin that he conceived and developed from the early 1880s to c. 1890 as part of his The Gates of Hell project. The Gates of Hell and Despair (sculpture) are sculptures based on Inferno (Dante) and sculptures by Auguste Rodin.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. The Gates of Hell and Divine Comedy are cultural depictions of Francesca da Rimini.

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Eternal Springtime

Eternal Springtime (L'Éternel Printemps) is a c. 1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, depicting a pair of lovers. The Gates of Hell and Eternal Springtime are sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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Eve (Rodin)

Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell and Eve (Rodin) are sculptures by Auguste Rodin, sculptures in the Musée Rodin and sculptures of Adam and Eve.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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Florence Baptistery

The Florence Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of Saint John (Battistero di San Giovanni), is a religious building in Florence, Italy.

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François Villon

François Villon (Modern French:,; – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Francesca da Rimini

Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta (died between 1283 and 1286) was a medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta.

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Fugitive Love

Fugitive Love is a sculpture by Auguste Rodin made between 1886 and 1887, both sculpted in marble and cast in bronze. The Gates of Hell and Fugitive Love are sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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Hôtel Biron

The Hôtel Biron, known initially as the Hôtel Peyrenc-de-Moras and later as the Hôtel du Maine, is an hôtel particulier located at 77 rue de Varenne, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, that was built from 1727 to 1732, to the designs of the architect Jean Aubert.

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I Am Beautiful (Rodin)

I Am Beautiful, also known as The Abduction, is a sculpture of 1882 by the French artist Auguste Rodin, inspired in a fragment from Charles Baudelaire's collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal. The Gates of Hell and i Am Beautiful (Rodin) are sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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Inferno (Dante)

Inferno (Italian for 'Hell') is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem The Divine Comedy. The Gates of Hell and Inferno (Dante) are cultural depictions of Francesca da Rimini.

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John Adamson (publisher)

John Adamson (born 1949) is a British publisher, translator and writer.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by Sal Khan.

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Kneeling Female Faun

Kneeling Female Faun is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell and Kneeling Female Faun are sculptures by Auguste Rodin.

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Kunsthaus Zürich

The Kunsthaus Zürich is in terms of area the biggest art museum of Switzerland and houses one of the most important art collections in Switzerland, assembled over time by the local art association called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft.

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La Comédie humaine

La Comédie humaine (English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).

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Les Fleurs du mal

Les Fleurs du mal (italic) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.

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List of sculptures by Auguste Rodin

This article lists a selection of notable works created by Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell and list of sculptures by Auguste Rodin are sculptures by Auguste Rodin.

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

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Meditation (sculpture)

Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The Gates of Hell and Meditation (sculpture) are sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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Meudon

Meudon is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay (Orsay Museum) is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

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Musée Rodin

The Musée Rodin (Rodin Museum) of Paris, France, is an art museum that was opened in 1919, primarily dedicated to the works of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

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Museo Soumaya

The Museo Soumaya is a private museum in Mexico City and a non-profit cultural institution with two museum buildings in Mexico City — Plaza Carso and Plaza Loreto.

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National Museum of Western Art

The is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.

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Octave Mirbeau

Octave Henri Marie Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French novelist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, journalist and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, whilst still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde with highly transgressive novels that explored violence, abuse and psychological detachment.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum is an art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that contains one of the largest collections of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris.

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Seoul

Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.

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Shizuoka (city)

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area.

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Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art

The is a prefectural museum in Shizuoka City, Japan, created in commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the inauguration of the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.

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Smarthistory

Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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The Barque of Dante

The Barque of Dante, also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and is a work signalling the shift in the character of narrative painting, from Neo-Classicism towards Romanticism.

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The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)

The Kiss (Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. The Gates of Hell and the Kiss (Rodin sculpture) are cultural depictions of Francesca da Rimini, sculptures based on Inferno (Dante), sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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The Last Judgment (Michelangelo)

The Last Judgment (Il Giudizio Universale) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.

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The Thinker

The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The Gates of Hell and The Thinker are bronze sculptures in the United States, sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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The Three Shades

The Three Shades (Les Trois Ombres) is a sculptural group produced in plaster by Auguste Rodin in 1886 for his The Gates of Hell. The Gates of Hell and The Three Shades are sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tympanum (architecture)

A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch.

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Ueno Park

is a spacious public park in the Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Ugolino and His Sons (Rodin)

Ugolino and his sons is a plaster sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, part of the sculptural group known as The Gates of Hell. The Gates of Hell and Ugolino and His Sons (Rodin) are sculptures based on Inferno (Dante), sculptures by Auguste Rodin and sculptures in the Musée Rodin.

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