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iRodin MuseumBenjamin Franklin Parkway / Fairmount
The Gates of Hell
Now showingPermanent collection$15
Rodin's monumental bronze doorway, worked on from 1880 until his death and cast for Philadelphia in 1926-28, crowds more than 200 figures from Dante's Inferno into a weightless, chaotic world.
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- Copy of Rodin's "The Kiss"Henri Greber's 1929 bronze after Rodin's embracing lovers from The Gates of Hell, made for the museum's garden but only installed outdoors in 1998.
- The ThinkerConceived as Dante brooding above The Gates of Hell, enlarged in 1902-04 and cast in 1919, Rodin's most famous figure presides over the museum's entrance courtyard on the Parkway.
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- The Gates of HellЮкатан, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America© Leo Amino Estate. Courtesy of the estate and David Zwirner
- Sky Hopinka: Red Metal DustPhoto © Barnes Foundation
- Botany of NationsCourtesy of Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Rodin MuseumBobak Ha'Eri, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- Barnes FoundationThekohser, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Franklin Instituteajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Universityajay_suresh, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Eastern State Penitentiary Historic SiteThesab / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0