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La Porte de l'Enfer is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures. The figures range from 15 centimetres (6 in) high up to more than one metre (3 ft). Several of the figures were also cast as independent free-standing statues.

The original sculptures were enlarged and became works of art of their own.

The Thinker (Le Penseur), also called The Poet

The Kiss (Le Baiser)

Ugolino and His Children (Ugolin et ses enfants)

The Three Shades (Les Trois Ombres)

Fleeting Love (Fugit Amor)

Paolo and Francesca

Meditation

The Old Courtesan

Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone

I Am Beautiful (Je suis belle)

Eternal Springtime (L'Éternel printemps)

Despair

Kneeling Female Faun

Dinanzi a me non fuor cose create

se non etterne, e io etterno duro.

Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate’.

Queste parole di colore oscuro

vid’ ïo scritte al sommo d’una porta;

per ch’io: «Maestro, il senso lor m’è duro».

Ed elli a me, come persona accorta:

«Qui si convien lasciare ogne sospetto;

ogne viltà convien che qui sia morta.

Noi siam venuti al loco ov’ i’ t’ho detto

che tu vedrai le genti dolorose

c’hanno perduto il ben de l’intelletto».

(Dante Alighieri's Inferno: Canto III)

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