Auguste Rodin's colossal work, The Gates of Hell, towers at 6m high, 4m wide, and 1m deep. Inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, it consumed a quarter-century of labor. The Directorate of Fine Arts, in 1880, commissioned this masterpiece for a Decorative Arts Museum, theme unspecified. Despite the museum's uncertain fate, The Gates of Hell were still completed. The sculpture features 180 figures, sizes ranging from 15cm to over a meter, including the renowned Thinker. Two replicas of The Gates of Hell can be found at the Kunsthaus Zürich and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.
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