Meditation (sculpture)
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Meditation | |
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![]() A bronze cast in the garden of the Musée Rodin | |
Artist | Auguste Rodin |
Year | 1886 |
Type | Sculpture |
Meditation or The Interior Voice is an 1886 sculpture by Auguste Rodin, showing a young woman resting her head on her right shoulder. The figure was also used on the right end of the tympanum of Rodin's The Gates of Hell, with a right hand added, extended in horror at the fate that awaits her in Hell.[1]
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Detail of the work without arms at the Museo Soumaya.
The figure was also used in Rodin's Monument to Victor Hugo, representing one of the poet's muses.[2] For Gates, Rodin cut off its arms, left knee and part of its right leg. He exhibited the plaster as an independent work in 1896.[3]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Meditation by Auguste Rodin.
- ^ (in Spanish) La puerta del Infierno. México: Fundación Carlos Slim. 2016. p. 233-235. ISBN 9786077805182.
- ^ "Meditation or The Inner Voice". Musee Rodin. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ^ "Meditation". Musee Rodin. Retrieved 2019-09-06.