The Gates of Hell

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The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin.

The sculpture is not the original, it is one six casts from the original. The sculpture depicts a scene from Dante Alighieri's "The Inferno" from the Divine Comedy. The work stands 6 meters high (19 feet), 4 meters wide (13 feet) and is 1 meter deep (3 feet).

This gate is located at the Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University along with many other Rodin works.
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@ 2015-10-03 17:21:29
This would make an awesome addition to my mausoleum.