Κostas GR
To be, or not to be.....
It seems, I have to add a description here, and I should have done some search before posting the image.
This is a copy of The Thinker, made in Thailand and displayed in Thailand.
There are many Thinker statues in the world (I'm not one of them) but from what I read the original was made by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).
When conceived in 1880 in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell , seated on the tympanum, The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. 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).
Hope I didn't bore you too much, with all that.
To be, or not to be.....
It seems, I have to add a description here, and I should have done some search before posting the image.
This is a copy of The Thinker, made in Thailand and displayed in Thailand.
There are many Thinker statues in the world (I'm not one of them) but from what I read the original was made by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917).
When conceived in 1880 in its original size (approx. 70 cm) as the crowning element of The Gates of Hell , seated on the tympanum, The Thinker was entitled The Poet. He represented Dante, author of the Divine Comedy which had inspired The Gates, leaning forward to observe the circles of Hell, while meditating on his work. The Thinker was therefore initially both a being with a tortured body, almost a damned soul, and a free-thinking man, determined to transcend his suffering through poetry. 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).
Hope I didn't bore you too much, with all that.