Torso of Adele
| Torso of Adèle | |
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| File:Torso of Adèle.jpg The work as exhibited at the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration in 2017 | |
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| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | c. 1884 |
| Type | Sculpture |
| Medium | Plaster Terracotta |
Torso of Adele is an 1878-1884 sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, originally modelled in plaster before being worked in terracotta.
Work
[edit | edit source]Judith Cladel (Rodin's friend and biographer) states that it arose from his study of caryatids. The model was probably the Italian Adèle Abruzzesi,[1][2] one of Rodin's favourite models. The sculpture was only completed in 1889 by the addition of the legs and left arm, for use in the top left-hand corner of The Gates of Hell. It does not appear in William Elborne's 1887 photographs of The Gates and so Rodin probably added it later. He also used the same torso, with a head added, for the female figures in Eternal Springtime and Illusions Received by the Earth.[3]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ (in Spanish) «Rodin, el torso de Adèle y el origen del mundo». Una temporada en el infierno. 19 March 2017.
- ^ (in Spanish) Museo Rodin, Museo Soumaya (2016). La puerta del Infierno. Méxicco: Fundación Carlos Slim. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
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