"Who sculpted ""The Gates of Hell"" depicting a scene from Dante's Inferno from 1880 until his death in 1917?"
The Gates of Hell The Gates of Hell The Gates of Hell () 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 () and contains 180 figures. The figures range from high up to more than one metre (3 ft). Several of the figures were also cast independently by Rodin. The sculpture was commissioned by the Directorate of Fine Arts in 1880 and was meant to be delivered in 1885. Rodin would continue to
Inferno (Dante) Inferno (Dante) Inferno (; Italian for "Hell") is the first part of Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem "Divine Comedy". It is followed by "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso". The "Inferno" tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen". As an allegory, the "Divine Comedy" represents the