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L'Ombre ou AdamThe Shade or AdamOther names: The Slave or The Titan |
Auguste Rodin
Alexis Rudier Fondeur (Paris) c. 1880 (1904) |
Sculpture conceived around 1880. It represents Adam, one of the damned characters of L'Enfer (Hell), a poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th century. The artist deliberately created this sculpture without its right hand to emphasize the expression of impotence. The bronze version at the Museum of Fine Arts, executed by Eugene Rudier seems to be the only version faithful to the original model. The figure was later used in triplicate for Rodin's The Three Shades, itself part of The Gates of Hell. The original individual figure had no right hand - Rodin had Josef Maratka add one in 1904 for both the individual figure and The Three Shades.
The garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden located within the the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It is a rectangular garden delimited by the arcades of the old cloister of the Benedictine abbey. It is located right in the city center on the peninsula. Like the Museum, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and holidays.
In the garden a number of sculptures of the museum is placed:
Bronze sculpturesMarble sculptures
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