Auguste Rodin was a French painter and sculptor, considered the progenitor of modern sculpture. Extremely good at shaping, he was able to confer great physicality and expressiveness to his characters.
The Thinker is one of the most famous sculptures in the history of art; it is a bronze work made over a long period of time, almost twenty-five years ago, between 1880 and 1904. Initially called “The Poet”, the statue was part of a bronze monumental door commissioned to Rodin as an entrance door of a planned Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs in Paris that in reality will never be realized. Rodin decided to portray a theme dear to him, the Dante universe of the Divine Comedy, consequently the thinker had to portray Dante in front of the gates of Hell, while meditating on his great work. Detached from this context, the work represents a naked man seated, placed on top of a rock, in deep meditation. Looking down, the right arm rests the elbow on the left leg, near the knee, while the backward hand supports the chin and the head. In the space of a few years this figure assumes a more generic, indeed universal, image and meaning, so much so as to enter the collective imagination as a sort of definition, in fact a symbol and an icon of intellectual activity.
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