The Gates of Hell

The original sculptures were enlarged and became works of art of their own. The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur. Also called The Poet, is located above the door panels. One interpretation suggests that it might represent Dante looking down to the characters in the Inferno. Another interpretation is that the Thinker is Rodin himself meditating about his composition. ...

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The Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - History, The Gates of Hell - Inspiration for the Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - Outstanding figures, The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur, The Gates of Hell - The Kiss Le Baiser, The Gates of Hell - Ugolino and his Children Ugolin et ses enfants, The Gates of Hell - The Three Shades Les trois Ombres, The Gates of Hell - Fugitive Love Fugit Amor, The Gates of Hell - Paolo and Francesca, The Gates of Hell - Meditation, The Gates of Hell - The Old Courtesan, The Gates of Hell - I am beautiful Je Suis Belle, The Gates of Hell - Eternal Springtime, The Gates of Hell - Adam and Eve, The Gates of Hell - Locations, The Gates of Hell - Popular references

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The original sculptures were enlarged and became works of art of their own. The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur. Also called The Poet, is located above the door panels. One interpretation suggests that it might represent Dante looking down to the characters in the Inferno. Another interpretation is that the Thinker is Rodin himself meditating about his composition. ...

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The Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - History, The Gates of Hell - Inspiration for the Gates of Hell, The Gates of Hell - Outstanding figures, The Gates of Hell - The Thinker Le Penseur, The Gates of Hell - The Kiss Le Baiser, The Gates of Hell - Ugolino and his Children Ugolin et ses enfants, The Gates of Hell - The Three Shades Les trois Ombres, The Gates of Hell - Fugitive Love Fugit Amor, The Gates of Hell - Paolo and Francesca, The Gates of Hell - Meditation, The Gates of Hell - The Old Courtesan, The Gates of Hell - I am beautiful Je Suis Belle, The Gates of Hell - Eternal Springtime, The Gates of Hell - Adam and Eve, The Gates of Hell - Locations

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The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is one of Auguste Rodin's famous bronze sculptures. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. Originally named The Poet, the piece was part of a commission by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris to create a monumental portal based on The Divine Comedy of Dante. Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main characters in the epic poem. The Thinker was originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. The sculpture is naked as Rodin wanted a heroic figure à la Mic ...

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Ugolino della Gherardesca (c. 1220-1289), count of Donoratico, was the head of the powerful family of Gherardesca, the chief Ghibelline house of Pisa. He is best known from Dante's fictional depiction of him in Inferno. Alleged to have betrayed his native city of Pisa to its enemies in Genoa, he was betrayed by his co-conspirator the Archbishop Ruggieri and imprisoned, along with his two sons and two grandsons. Ugolino della Gherardesca - Historical Personage. His alliance with the Visconti, t ...

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• Ugolino della Gherardesca - The Legend
• Ugolino della Gherardesca - Scientific analysis

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The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Comedia" or "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and one of the greatest of world literature. Its influence is so great that it affects the Western Christian view of the afterlife to this day. The Divine Comedy - Structure and story. The Divine Comedy is composed of thre ...

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• The Divine Comedy - Structure and story
• The Divine Comedy - Inferno
• The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio
• The Divine Comedy - Paradiso
• The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern
• The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism
• The Divine Comedy - Original copies
• The Divine Comedy - Derivative works
• The Divine Comedy - Visual arts
• The Divine Comedy - Literature
• The Divine Comedy - Music
• The Divine Comedy - Sculpture
• The Divine Comedy - Notes

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Auguste Rodin (November 12, 1840 – November 17, 1917) was a French sculptor. Born François-Auguste-René Rodin, to a working class family in Paris, he is often given a pivotal role in the history of modern sculpture, as both excelling at and rebelling from the Beaux-arts tradition. His unique, virtuoso ability to organize a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface set him apart from the figure sculpture traditions before and since his time. Despite the talent evident in his portrait of the local priest who h ...

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His alliance with the Visconti, the leaders of the Guelph faction, through the marriage of his sister with Giovanni Visconti, judge of Gallura, aroused the suspicions of his party, and the Ghibellines being then predominant in Pisa, the disorders in the city caused by Ugolino and Visconti in 1271-1274 led to the arrest of the former and the banishment of the latter. Visconti died soon afterwards, and Ugolino, no longer regarded as dangerous, was liberated and banished. But he immediately began to intrigue with the Guelph towns opposed to Pis ...

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Ugolino della Gherardesca, Ugolino della Gherardesca - Historical Personage, Ugolino della Gherardesca - The Legend, Ugolino della Gherardesca - Scientific analysis

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Rodin's method of making large sculptures was to employ assistant sculptors to copy a smaller model made from a material which was easier to work than marble. Once they had finished, Rodin himself would put the finishing touches to the larger version. Before creating the marble version of The Kiss, Rodin produced several smaller sculptures in plaster, terracotta and bronze. The sculpture was originally titled Francesca da Rimini, as it depicts the 13th-century Italian noblewoman immortalised in Dante's Inferno (Circle 2, ...

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The Kiss Rodin sculpture, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Controversial homage to women, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Smaller versions of The Kiss, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Larger-than-life marble carvings of The Kiss, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - The French commission, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Edward Perry Warren's commission, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Carl Jacobsen's commission, The Kiss Rodin sculpture - Additional notes

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Main Characters. Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name. Judai Yuki (遊城 十代 Yūki Jūdai) / Jaden Yuki - Jaden Yuki is the main character, who has to live in the worst dormitory of the duelist academy, Slifer (Osiris) Red. 15-year old Jaden gets the rare Winged Kuriboh (Hane Kuribo, ハネクリボー Hane Kuribō) card from Yugi Muto (Yugi Mutou in the Japanese verson), the famous duelist from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! ...

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Main Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Other Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - The Seven Shadow Riders, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - The White Organization, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Characters from the original series, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode List, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Voice Actors, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Japanese version Seiyū, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - English version, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - External link

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The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), composed respectively of 34, 33, and 33 cantos. The first cantica, Inferno, is by far the most famous of the three, and is often published separately under the title Dante's Inferno. As a part of the whole literary work, the first canto serves as an introduction to the entire Divine Comedy, making each of the canticas 33 cantos lon ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - Derivative works, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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List of horror films, List of horror films - Silent, List of horror films - 1930s talking, List of horror films - 1940s, List of horror films - 1950s, List of horror films - 1960s, List of horror films - 1970s, List of horror films - 1980s, List of horror films - 1990s, List of horror films - 2000s, List of horror films - External link

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The Musée Rodin in Paris was founded to administer and exhibit the huge body of work (over 5,000 plaster items, over 1,000 bronze sculptures, ca. 8,000 drawings, and as many photographs) Rodin left to the French government by several deeds of donation, shortly before his death. A part of this collection is shown at Hôtel Biron, much of it displayed in an outdoor garden. The most of plaster collection is kept at Villa des Brillants in Meudon, a suburb of Paris, where Rodin lived and wor ...

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Auguste Rodin, Auguste Rodin - Legacy, Auguste Rodin - Locations of Rodin sculpture

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The Divine Comedy is composed of three canticas (or "cantiche"), Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise), composed respectively of 34, 33, and 33 cantos. The first cantica, Inferno, is by far the most famous of the three, and is often published separately under the title Dante's Inferno. As a part of the whole literary work, the first canto serves as an introduction to the entire Divine Comedy, making each of the canticas 33 cantos lon ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical). The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes an ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - Derivative works, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost 6 centuries–as one of the most well known and greatest artistic works in the Western tradition, its influence on culture can not be overestimated. Listed here are some examples. The Divine Comedy - Visual arts. Before his death in 1827, William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to Dante's Inferno. Though he did not finish the series before his death, t ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Japanese version Seiyū. Judai Yuki - KENN Asuka Tenjouin - Sanae Kobayashi Sho Marufuji - Masami Suzuki Ryo Marufuji - Takeshi Maeda Jun Manjoume - Taiki Matsuno Cronos de Medici - Hiroshi Shimizu Daichi Misawa - Yuki Masuda Hayato Maeda - Takehiro Hasu Hane Kuribo - Shimika Ishiba Sameshima - Masami Iwasaki Daitokuji / Amnael - Kappei Yamaguchi Emi Ayukawa - Michiko Neya Tome - Mariko ...

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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Main Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Other Characters, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - The Seven Shadow Riders, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - The White Organization, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Characters from the original series, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Episode List, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Voice Actors, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - Japanese version Seiyū, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - English version, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - External link

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The Divine Comedy - Visual arts. The 1911 silent film L'Inferno, directed by Guiseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa and released on DVD in 2004, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream; see IMDb reference; Silent era.com. The 1935 motion picture Dante's Inferno directed by Harry Lachman, written by Philip Klein and starring Spencer Tracy. The interpretation of hell in the 1998 film What Dreams May Come is heavily inspired by Dante's Inferno. P ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - Derivative works, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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Only two known copies of the original manuscript still remain. One is in Milan, and the other is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay. In 1930, Mussolini offered the society one million pounds sterling for the book, but was flatly refused. According to the Società Dantesca Italiana, no original manuscript written by Dante survived; there are many manuscript copies from the 14th and 15th ce ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical). The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes an ...

See also:

The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - The Divine Comedy in the arts, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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Only two known copies of the original manuscript still remain. One is in Milan, and the other is owned by the Asiatic Society of Bombay. In 1930, Mussolini offered the society one million pounds sterling for the book, but was flatly refused. According to the Società Dantesca Italiana, no original manuscript written by Dante survived; there are many manuscript copies from the 14th and 15th ce ...

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The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy - Structure and story, The Divine Comedy - Inferno, The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio, The Divine Comedy - Paradiso, The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern, The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism, The Divine Comedy - Original copies, The Divine Comedy - Derivative works, The Divine Comedy - Visual arts, The Divine Comedy - Literature, The Divine Comedy - Music, The Divine Comedy - Sculpture, The Divine Comedy - Notes

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