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Though there are now dozens of casts of Auguste Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Thinker” around the world, it had a much smaller origin. Rodin originally created a 70 cm (27.6 in) version in 1880, as the central component to a bigger sculptural work called “The Gates of Hell”. Inspired by Dante’s Inferno, the piece—first called “The Poet”—was conceived as a representation of Dante himself. The re-dubbed sculpture was exhibited on its own in 1888, then was enlarged, in 1904, to the depiction we know today.
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