The Thinker by Auguste Rodin
The Thinker, or originally The Poet, by famous sculptor Auguste Rodin, is a large bronze sculpture of a nude male figure who is pensive. As merely onlookers, the audience experiences the immersive thought along with this figure. There is a sense of mystery in this sculpture. What is so enthralling that keeps this man in thought? What troubles him? Or is he even troubled? This figure is actually the poet, Dante, who wrote the Divine Comedy. Dante's The Divine Comedy was the inspiration for Rodin's The Gates of Hell. Rodin's fine skills in demonstrating human anatomy are very clear in this sculpture and rope in the viewer.
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