Avarice and Lust

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Avarice and Lust
French: La luxure et l'avarice
La luxure et l'avarice - Auguste Rodin.jpg
Artist Auguste Rodin
Year1885 (1885)
Typesculpture
MediumBronze
Location Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Avarice and Lust is a sculpture by French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived between 1885 and 1887, representing two of the seven capital sins and is part of his sculptural group The Gates of Hell , [1] where it can be found in the lower part of the right door. [2] It's possible that the name was inspired by Victor Hugo's poem Après une lecture du Dante: [1]

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The piece is made of several parts: the torso of a falling man, whose extremely long arms encircle a woman who is partially covering her face, while he is reaching for some coins. He represents greed. His body is made up with the torso from The Falling Man , with the arms in a different position, a new head and hair. [2] Lust is represented with the female figure offering her body, based on an 1888 drawing by Rodin, titled Skeleton embracing a woman. [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Museo Soumaya (2015). La puerta del Infierno[The Gates of Hell] (1st ed.). Fundacion Carlos Slim. pp. 322–325. ISBN   978-607-7805-18-2.
  2. 1 2 Elsen, Albert Edward; Jamison, Rosalyn Frankel (2003). Bernard Barryte (ed.). Rodin's Art: the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Collection at Stanford University . Nueva York: Oxford University Press. pp.  253–256. ISBN   0195133811.
  3. Hugo, Victor (1909). "Après une lecture de Dante" [After a lecture of Dante]. Wikisource (in French). Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  4. Johnson, James (Spring 2007). "After reading Dante" (PDF). Pusteblume. 1. Boston University / Pen & Anvil Press: 11. ISSN   1559-7164 . Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  5. Musée Rodin. "L'avarice et la Luxure". Musée Rodin, official website. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.