<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#00ffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77ad81ac-3145-4c8f-b7fa-f09594a7215d/C6A97661-1677-419A-99C8-1AD29DD5D422/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm" href="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.musee-rodin.fr</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm">The Thinker</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana"> Of all the works by Rodin, the most famous one is unquestionably the great </FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#880000"><B>Thinker.</B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana"></FONT></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S788.jpg" href="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S788.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.musee-rodin.fr</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S788.jpg"><IMG src="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S788.jpg" alt="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/images/imagra/S788.jpg" /></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm" href="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.musee-rodin.fr</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana">It was modelled in 1880-1882 for </FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#880000"><B>The Gates of Hell,</B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana"> and exhibited in its original size (H. 71.5 cm) in Copenhagen in 1888. It was enlarged in 1902 and exhibited in this form at the Salon of 1904 where it aroused strong reactions from the press. It was on this occasion that Gabriel Mourey, editor of the magazine </FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#880000"><B>Les Arts de la vie</B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana"><I>,</I> launched a subscription for a bronze "offered to the people of Paris" to erase the affront caused by the refusal of the statue of </FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#880000"><B>Balzac</B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana"> in 1898.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm"><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="#880000"><B>The Thinker</B></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Verdana" color="black"> was the first work by Rodin to be erected in a public place. It was inaugurated in front of the Pantheon on 21 April 1906 during an intense political and social crises which turned this sculpture into a socialist symbol. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.musee-rodin.fr/senf2-e.htm">it was transported, with its pedestal, to the garden of the Hôtel Biron which had by then become the Rodin Museum. 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