Visiting Rodin's House

The Three Shades originally were created to sit on top the Gates of Hell.  The same figure is shown in three positions pivoting around one point.  Rodin was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and the well known phrase “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here”.  Later Rodin made the statue larger to stand as a piece on its own.

 The statue of the Burghers of Calais shown above is actually in the sculpture

garden at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

Eve

Among the paintings inside the house is a portrait of Auguste Rodin done by 

John Singer Sargent

A self-portrait by Van Gogh

Claude Monet

The Gates of Hell

Jan and Randy Hopkins from Farmington, Utah.

Peter carrying the keys

 This pole was covered in stickers in the fall of 2007 when I first visited Rodin's Museum