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The Thinker ( French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand.
The Thinker, sculpture of a pensive nude male by French artist Auguste Rodin, one of his most well-known works.
While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work. Enlarged in 1904, its colossal version proved even more popular: this image of a man lost in thought, but whose powerful body suggests a great capacity for action, has become one of the most celebrated ...
In the late 1880s Rodin began to exhibit the figure, sometimes with the title Poet, other times as Poet/Thinker. By 1896, however, it had become simply The Thinker, a still more universal image...
Auguste Rodin French. Cast by Alexis Rudier French. modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 800. The Thinker was made to sit over the lintel of Rodin’s monumental bronze doorway, The Gates of Hell, contemplating the fate of the damned.
Rodin Works: The Thinker . Already in the first year of working on 'The Gates of Hell', Rodin modeled the central figure of this great composition: 'The Thinker'. As an independent work it became perhaps the best-known sculpture of all time.
Rodin originally conceived *The Thinker* as a depiction of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) sitting in the upper center of a monumental sculptu...
While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work. Enlarged in 1904, its colossal version proved even more popular: this image of a man lost in thought, but whose powerful body suggests a great capacity for action, has become one of the most celebrated ...
Details. Title: The Thinker. Creator: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) Date Created: 1880–81. Physical Dimensions: Overall: 182.9 x 98.4 x 142.2 cm (72 x 38 3/4 x 56 in.) Provenance: purchased...
In the late 1880s Rodin began to exhibit the figure, sometimes with the title Poet, other times as Poet/Thinker. By 1896, however, it had become simply The Thinker, a still more universal image that reveals in physical terms the mental effort and even anguish of creativity.
