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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Musée Rodin (Paris, Île-de-France, France) S.1304en_US
dc.coverage.temporalca. 1880-1917 (creation); cast 1928 (other)en_US
dc.creatorRodin, Augusteen_US
dc.date1880-1917en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date.available2015-01-06T15:10:32Z
dc.date.issued1880-1917en_US
dc.identifier256326en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3158en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/172278
dc.descriptionDetail, right door jamb at base; In August 1880, the Under-Secretary in the Ministry of Arts, Edmond Turquet (1836-1914), invited Rodin to provide monumental bronze doors for a planned new museum of decorative arts. It appears that it was Rodin’s decision to choose Dante’s Inferno as the theme for the doors that became known as the Gates of Hell. In 1885 Rodin announced that the Gates would be ready to be cast in six months. Plans for building the museum were soon canceled, however. Freed from a deadline, he let the plaster work stand in his studio, intermittently revising the figure groups and architectural mouldings. Not until 1917 did Léonce Bénédite, the Musée Rodin’s first curator, manage to persuade the sculptor to allow him to reconstruct his masterpiece in order to have it cast in bronze. Rodin died before seeing the result of all these long years of effort. The first bronze was made in 1925; there are a total of six bronzes. The original plaster in the Musée d’Orsay remains the property of the French government. This cast made by Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1928 for the Musée Rodin. Source: Musée Rodin [website]; http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/ (accessed 5/12/2014)en_US
dc.format.mediumbronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectallegoryen_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjectliterary or legendaryen_US
dc.subjectDante Alighieri, 1265-1321en_US
dc.subjectDivine Comedyen_US
dc.subjecthigh-reliefen_US
dc.subjectDivina commediaen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.titleGates of Hell [Musée Rodin bronze cast]en_US
dc.title.alternativePorte de l'Enferen_US
dc.title.alternativeGates of Hellen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A1-RA-TGH-G01en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniquemodeling (forming), casting (process)en_US
vra.worktypedooren_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayAuguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)en_US


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