Rodin Museum, Paris

Rodin’s The Thinker was originally part of The Gates of Hell which was completed on commission in 1882. What became known as The Thinker was originally intended to represent the poet Dante as he contemplated writing The Divine Comedy, on which The Gates of Hell was based.

10 Most Famous Sculptures In The World

• The Great Sphinx of Giza.
• Christ the Redeemer (1931) – Paul Landowski.
• Manneken Pis (1619) – Hieronymus Duquesnoy the Elder.
• The Thinker (1904) – Auguste Rodin.
• Venus de Milo – Alexandros of Antioch.
• David (1504) – Michelangelo.
• Statue of Liberty (1886) – Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.

Auguste Rodin

The Gates of Hell

Paris

According to the original 13th Century story, Francesca and Paolo fell for one another as they sat reading tales of courtly love. When Francesca’s husband, who was also Paolo’s brother, discovered them, he stabbed them to death. Rodin decided to depict the lovers at the moment of their first kiss.

PARIS (Reuters) – A bronze cast of French 19th century sculptor Auguste Rodin’s famous “The Kiss” was bought by a U.S. collector for 2.2 million euros ($2.5 million) at a Paris auction on Tuesday.

Modern art

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Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on December 14, 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$860 million in 2020.

The Kiss: description and meaning The inspiration for his “Golden Phase” was presumably provided by a visit to Ravenna during his travels through Italy in 1903, which introduced him to the world of Byzantine mosaics.

“The Kiss”, (1907-1908), is one of his most prestigious works and contributed to his success as an artist. The Art Nouveau movement is characterized by organic, botanical patterns and curving lines. Klimt is also unique in his technique because he utilized gold leaf within his work.

Leonardo da Vinci, Salvator Mundi (ca. After a drawn-out 19-minute long bidding war, Salvator Mundi became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Sold from a private European collection, the winning buyer was later revealed to be Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

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On 21st August 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Salon Carré in the Louvre. The theft was discovered the following day when a painter wandered into the Louvre to admire the Mona Lisa, and instead discovered four metal pegs! He promptly alerted security, who in turn alerted the media.

Just once. Vincenzo Peruggia was an Italian thief, most famous for stealing the Mona Lisa on August 21, 1911. It wasn’t until December 1913 that Peruggia was finally caught and the Mona Lisa was returned. The Mona Lisa was stolen one time.

In 1914, the militant suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus in London’s National Gallery as a protest against the arrest of her fellow suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.

One of the commonly cited reasons for her fame is the ‘Mona Lisa’s Smile’. Da Vinci exploited human optimcal illusion to create a unique smile through perspective and by using shadow work. Da Vinci painted Mona Lisa in such a way that the eyes are the center of the viewer’s attention and the mouth is the periphery.

The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990 when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively valued at $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Vermeer’s The Concert, which is considered to be the most valuable stolen painting in the world.

According to data reported by The Huffington Post, gathered from 1,187 retailers representing more than 250,000 retail outlets across 43 countries, cheese trumps fresh meat, chocolate, alcohol, seafood, and infant formula, all of which made the most-stolen list.

Unsurprisingly, this article comes after I watched This Is A Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, a new documentary on Netflix that investigates the mysterious (and still unsolved) case of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery in 1990.

In 1994 Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream was stolen from a Norwegian art museum. It was recovered in a daring undercover operation by British detectives. Charles Hill was one of those detectives who posed as an art dealer to trick the thieves into returning the painting.

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The Scream by Edvard Munch is among the most iconic images of modern art. Of 4 versions of the painting, 2 have been stolen in major museum heists.