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The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin’s monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris. Although the doors were never cast during the sculptor’s lifetime, they nevertheless provided Rodin a rich source of ideas for individual figures and groups that he worked and reworked for the rest of his career.
Vienna, 1953: 27-28. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin. New York, 1963: 52-54.

Rodin designed this figure as one of six colossal statues forming a monument to a group of fourteenth-century citizens of the northern French town of Calais. The six men had offered themselves as hostages to induce the English to lift a siege and spare their starving city.
Paris, 1944: 59-62. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin.

Nineteenth-century viewers and critics were immediately taken with Rodin’s three-dimensional group, entitled Paolo and Francesca , the passionate lovers from the fifth canto of Dante’s Inferno . When one enthusiastic critic referred to it as The Kiss , the new title stuck, and the association with Dante’s ill-fated lovers gave way to a more contemporary, universal response to their passionate embrace.
London, 1959: 224-226. 1963 Elsen, Albert E. Rodin.

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