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Nude Male Bronze Statue on Marble Base Sculpture

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Nude Male Bronze Statue on Marble Base Sculpture
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This is a bronze replica of Auguste Rodin's Adam sculpture.

He is posed in a Contrapposto but unnatural pose as though the feeling of remorse writhes his body. He was captures using the ageold method of lost wax casting and finished with Green patina stain. Adam is mounted upon a yellow onyx marble base. Bronze Dimensions with Marble Base: Height 18 X Width 9 inches. Weight: 17 LBS. Inventory: 21B24710012

In 1880, Rodin proposed to Torque, the Undersecretary for Fine Arts, to flank his Gates of Hell' by two colossal statues: Adam and Eve, the first sinners. The Gates of Hell is a monumental sculptural group that depicts a scene from The Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy written in the early 14th century. He had visited the two most famous versions of this subject: Masaccio's Adam and Eve in Santa Maria Novella, Florence, and the Sistine Chapel in Rome with Michelangelo's frescos, featuring Adam reaching his hand out to God as the central scene. But being dissatisfied with his first outline of Adam, because he thought it too close to Michelangelo’s style, he destroyed this first version. Rodin made Adam look down instead of facing his FatherCreator. We understand this downward look as an expression of shame and guilt expressing the shame and remorse after the fall to sin.