Editing Auguste Rodin (section)

===''The Thinker''===
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[[File:The Thinker, Rodin.jpg|thumb|upright|Rodin's ''[[The Thinker]]'' (1879–1889) is among the most recognized works in all of sculpture.]]
''The Thinker'' (originally titled ''The Poet'', after Dante) was to become one of the best-known sculptures in the world. The original was a {{convert|27.5|in|mm|adj=on}} high bronze piece created between 1879 and 1889, designed for the ''Gates''<nowiki>'</nowiki> [[lintel]], from which the figure would gaze down upon Hell. While ''The Thinker'' most obviously characterizes Dante, aspects of the Biblical [[Adam]], the mythological [[Prometheus]],<ref name="j638"/> and Rodin himself have been ascribed to him.<ref name="bell"/><ref name="alhadeff"/> Other observers de-emphasize the apparent intellectual theme of ''The Thinker'', stressing the figure's rough physicality and the emotional tension emanating from it.<ref>Taillandier, 42, 46, 48.</ref>