What is The Thinker?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Auguste Rodin - Grubleren 2005-02.jpg|thumb|''The Thinker'']] '''''The Thinker''''' ({{lang-fr|'''Le Penseur'''}}) (1902) is a [[bronze]] [[statue]]. It was made by the [[sculptor]] [[Auguste Rodin]]. It depicts a man sitting and thinking with his [[arm]]s bent on his [[knee]] and his [[chin]] on his [[hand]]. Rodin first called the statue ''The Poet''. It was part of a commission by the [[Museum of Decorative Arts]] in [[Paris]] to create a huge [[gate]] based on the epic [[poem]] ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]. Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main [[Fictional character|characters]] in the poem. ''The Thinker'' was originally meant to depict [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] himself in front of the Gates of [[Hell]] considering his great poem. Over twenty casts of the sculpture exist. They are now in [[museum]]s around the [[world]]. Some of those copies are enlarged versions of the original work, while others have somewhat different [[proportions]]. == Other websites == * The [http://www.penseur.org Thinker project] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120906175236/http://www.penseur.org/ |date=2012-09-06 }}, [[Munich]]. Discussion of the history of the many casts of this artwork. {{DEFAULTSORT:Thinker, The}} [[Category:Statues]] [[Category:1902 works]] [[Category:1900s in art]]