Plate LIX - The Thinker…
Although Rodin died before completing his Gates of Hell, two of his most celebrated and well known works were concepts for this the final commission of his life.
The Thinker was Rodin’s 1880 study for a seated image of the poet Dante, to be included in the upper part of the door. Other examples of this casting of his statue are known to exist, but this is the best known of them.
I have sometimes been accused of not including people in many of my pictures. It is true. I had to wait quite some time to get this shot of Rodin’s masterpiece without some intrusive tourist face becoming part of the composition, finally begging the guide of a busload of foreigners to grant me just one shot before they clambered one by one onto the plinth to record for posterity that they too were here.
What were they thinking?
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Whatever the thought may have been it appears to be VERY deep....BUT I would have liked to knew. It's a VERY good picture..I do like it & THANK YOU Dave :)
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