Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Penseur (The Thinker) 1903 Bronze, 189 x 98 x 140 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Created in 1880 in its original size, approximately 70 cm, to adorn the tympanum of The Gates of Hell, The Thinker was then…
Le Penseur (1903)
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Adam (1880-1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Adam modeled 1880 or 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 194 × 77.2 × 82.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Auguste Rodin’s first commission from the French government, The Gates of Hell, was intended to be the portal…
Eve (1881)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Eve modeled 1881, cast 1910 Bronze, 174 × 52.1 × 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin intended Eve and the towering Adam to flank his monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell. There, the biblical…
L’Âge d’airain (1876)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) L’Âge d’airain (The Age of Bronze) modeled 1876, cast c.1906 Bronze, 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rodin’s breakout sculpture, The Age of Bronze caused a critical scandal for its extreme naturalism and ambiguous subject matter.…
Le Baiser (c.1882)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Le Baiser (The Kiss) c.1882 Marble, 181.5 × 112.5 × 117 cm Musée Rodin, Paris Commissioned by the French state in 1888, carved between 1888 and 1898. Joined the collections of the Musée du Luxembourg in 1901; transferred…
Maestà (1308-1311)
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints) 1308–1311 Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Duomo di Siena, Siena This was the central panel of the Maestà altarpiece in the Cathedral of Siena. Virtual reconstruction of the…
Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (1767-1769)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Stigmatizzazione di San Francesco (Stigmatization of Saint Francis) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 278 x 153 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A depiction of a miracle in the life of Saint Francis of Assisi that took place in…
L’Immacolata Concezione (1767-1769)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) L’Immacolata Concezione (The Immaculate Conception) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 281 x 155 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This majestic image was part of a cycle of seven altarpieces commissioned in 1767 for the new royal church of…
Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (1767-1769)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Abramo e i tre angeli (c.1770)
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Abramo e i tre angeli (Abraham and the three angels) c.1770 Oil on canvas, 196 x 151 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting presents an event mentioned in the book of Genesis (18, 1.19). Giambattista Tiepolo…