Side view of Auguste Rodin's Le Penseur (The Thinker), monumental bronze sculpture at Art Gallery of Ontario

Rodin’s “Thinker” Makes Us Think.

He sits, hunched and in deep and brooding contemplation. Despite the morose tone, he has become one of the most recognizable images in Art History. He is Auguste Rodin’s (1840-1917) “Le Penseur” (The Thinker). Originally executed in 1880 as a portrait of the poet Dante, whose “Inferno” would be the subject of Rodin’s masterpiece, “The […]

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