MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
The Three Shades [before 1886]
Image View:
Raking view from side
Creator:
Auguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)
Location:
repository: Musée Rodin (Paris, Île-de-France, France) S.1191
Location Note:
Hôtel Biron; 79 rue de Varenne
GPS:
+48.8555281+2.315902
Date:
before 1886 (creation); cast 1928 (other)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
sculpture
Material:
bronze
Technique:
casting (process); modeling (forming)
Measurements:
97 cm (height) x 91.3 cm (width) x 54.3 cm (depth)
Description:
Cast made by Fonderie Alexis Rudier in 1928 for the museum collections. In Dante's Divine Comedy, the shades, i.e. the souls of the damned, stand at the entrance to Hell, pointing to an unequivocal inscription, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here". Rodin made several studies of Shades, before finally deciding to assemble three identical figures that seem to be turning around the same point. He placed them on top of the Gates of Hell, from where they could gaze down at the spectator. (Source: Musée Rodin [website]; http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier:
7A1-RA-TTSB-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

The Three Shades [before 1886]

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The Three Shades [before 1886]