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The Gates of Hell

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The Gates of Hell (La Porte de l'Enfer) is a monumental 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]

46 relations: Auguste Rodin, Caryatid, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Eternal Springtime, Eve (Rodin), Florence, Florence Baptistery, François Villon, Francesca da Rimini, Inferno (Dante), Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, John Adamson (publisher), Khan Academy, Kneeling Female Faun, Korea, Kunsthaus Zürich, La Comédie humaine, Les Fleurs du mal, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Meditation (sculpture), Meudon, Mexico City, Musée d'Orsay, Musée Rodin, Museo Soumaya, National Museum of Western Art, Octave Mirbeau, Old Testament, Paris, Philadelphia, Relief, Rodin Museum, Seoul, Smarthistory, Stanford University, The Barque of Dante, The Kiss (Rodin sculpture), The Last Judgment (Michelangelo), The Thinker, The Three Shades, Tokyo, Tympanum (architecture), Ueno Park, Ugolino della Gherardesca, Zürich.

Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Caryatid

A caryatid (Καρυάτις, plural: Καρυάτιδες) is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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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.

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Eve (Rodin)

Eve is a nude sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.

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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 (Battistero di San Giovanni), also known as the Baptistery of Saint John, is a religious building in Florence, Italy, and has the status of a minor basilica.

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François Villon

François Villon (pronounced in modern French; in fifteenth-century French), born in Paris in 1431 and disappeared from view in 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 (1255–ca. 1285) was the daughter of Guido da Polenta, lord of Ravenna.

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Inferno (Dante)

Inferno (Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.

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Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, formerly the Stanford University Museum of Art, and commonly known as the Cantor Arts Center, is a complimentary art museum on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.

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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 a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan with a goal of creating a set of online tools that help educate students.

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Kneeling Female Faun

Kneeling Female Faun is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin.

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Korea

Korea is a region in East Asia; since 1945 it has been divided into two distinctive sovereign states: North Korea and South Korea.

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Kunsthaus Zürich

The Kunsthaus Zürich is an art museum in the Swiss city of Zürich.

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La Comédie humaine

La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's (1799–1850) multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848).

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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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Lorenzo Ghiberti

Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 – 1 December 1455), born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the Gates of Paradise.

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Meditation (sculpture)

Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 plaster sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder.

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Meudon

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

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Mexico City

Mexico City, or the City of Mexico (Ciudad de México,; abbreviated as CDMX), is the capital of Mexico and the most populous city in North America.

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Musée d'Orsay

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

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Musée Rodin

The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919, 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 Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements 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 the largest collection of sculptor Auguste Rodin's works outside Paris.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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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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Stanford University

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

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The Barque of Dante

The Barque of Dante, sometimes known as Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, and one of the works signalling a shift in the character of narrative painting from Neo-Classicism towards the Romantic movement.

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The Kiss (Rodin sculpture)

The Kiss (Le Baiser) is an 1882 marble sculpture by the French sculptor Auguste 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, usually placed on a stone pedestal.

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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.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Tympanum (architecture)

In architecture, a tympanum (plural, tympana) is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and 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 della Gherardesca

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca (March 1289), count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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Redirects here:

Door of Hell, Gate to Hell, Gates of Hell, La Porte De L'enfer, La Porte de L'enfer, La Porte de l'Enfer, Les Portes D'Enfer.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gates_of_Hell

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