RODIN, Auguste
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1917, Meudon)

Gates of Hell (detail)

1880-1917
Plaster
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

This group was intended to top The Gates of Hell. It is a group of hopelessness. The three different aspects of the figures appear to embody Dante's sentence: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'




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