The Thinker from Yehud is an archaeological figurine discovered during salvage excavations in the Israeli city of Yehud. The figurine, which sits atop a ceramic jug in a posture resembling …

The Thinker, one of the most well-known sculptures by French artist Auguste Rodin, a pensive nude male figure cast or sculpted in many sizes.

The pose of this figure owes much to Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861) and to the seated portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici carved by Michelangelo (1526-31). While remaining in place on the …

In a real sense, The Thinker is Rodin. Brutishly muscled yet engrossed in thought, coiled in tension yet loose in repose, the sculpture, according to one early twentieth-century critic, …

May 23, 2025 · The Thinker, modeled after both classical sculpture and a real body of Rodin’s contemporary, remains a complex allegory of creation and contemplation. Read on to learn …

The Thinker was originally conceived not in heroic isolation, but as part of Rodin's monumental Gates of Hell —a pair of bronze doors intended for a museum of decorative arts in Paris.

Mar 20, 2025 · When French artist Auguste Rodin made a bronze figure of a thinking man for his famous composition, The Gates of Hell, he could not have possibly imagined the level of …

In the late 1880s Rodin began to exhibit the figure, sometimes with the title Poet, other times as Poet/Thinker. By 1896, however, it had become simply The Thinker, a still more universal...

But the sculptor eventually separated the figure from The Gates, exhibiting it alone as a generic portrait he called The Poet or The Thinker. In 1904 the city of Paris installed a larger version of …

The image of The Thinker is not that of a passive dreamer, but of a man actively engaged in creative thought. Thinking has been expressed not only through the meditative attitude of the …