Avarice and Lust
Sculpture by Auguste Rodin
| Avarice and Lust | |
|---|---|
| French: La luxure et l'avarice | |
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| Artist | Auguste Rodin |
| Year | 1885 (1885) |
| Type | sculpture |
| Medium | Bronze |
| 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]
Et la luxure immonde, et l'avarice infâme, | And filthy lust, and shameful greed: |
| —Victor Hugo, from Les Voix intérieures | —James Johnson |
Description
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]
See also
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Hugo, Victor (1909). "Après une lecture de Dante" [After a lecture of Dante]. Wikisource (in French). Retrieved October 18, 2016.
- ^ Johnson, James (Spring 2007). "After reading Dante" (PDF). Pusteblume. 1. Boston University / Pen & Anvil Press: 11. ISSN 1559-7164. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
- ^ Musée Rodin. "L'avarice et la Luxure". Musée Rodin, official website. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
External links
Media related to Avarice and Lust by Auguste Rodin at Wikimedia Commons
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- Man with the Broken Nose (1863)
- Alsatian Orphan (1871)
- Suzon (1872–73)
- The Age of Bronze (1876)
- La Defense (1879)
- The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880)
- The Shade (1880)
- The Gates of Hell (1880/1917)
- The Thinker (1880, locations)
- Adam (1880–81)
- Eve (1881)
- Crouching Woman (1880–1882)
- Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907)
- Ugolino and His Sons (1881)
- The Kiss (1882)
- I Am Beautiful (1882)
- The Falling Man (1882)
- Jules Dalou (1883)
- Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883)
- Bust of Victor Hugo (1883)
- Eternal Springtime (1884)
- Torso of Adele (c. 1884)
- The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889)
- Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911)
- The Prodigal Son (1885)
- Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885)
- The Martyr (1885)
- Psyche Looking at Love (1885)
- Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86)
- Jean d'Aire (1885–86)
- Jean de Fiennes (1885–86)
- Avarice and Lust (1885–1887)
- Damned Women (1885–1890)
- The Old Tree (1885)
- Paolo and Francesca (1885)
- Young Mother (1885)
- Young Mother in the Grotto (1885)
- Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885)
- The Three Shades (1886)
- Meditation (1886)
- Fugitive Love (1886–87)
- Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889)
- Pierre de Wiessant (1887)
- Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887)
- The Sirens (1887)
- Polyphemus (1888)
- Standing Mercury (1888)
- The Kneeling Man (1888)
- Adonis Awakens (1889)
- Andromeda (1889)
- Glaucus (1889)
- Kneeling Female Faun (1889)
- The Succubus (1889)
- Despair (c. 1890)
- Brother and Sister (1890)
- Danaid (1890)
- Cybele (1890/1904)
- Monument to Balzac (1892–1897)
- Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892)
- Youth Triumphant (c. 1894)
- Octave Mirdeau (1895)
- Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895)
- Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896)
- The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99)
- Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900)
- The Athlete (1901–1904)
- The Death of Adonis (1903–1906)
- Adam and Eve (1905)
- The Walking Man (1907)
- The Cathedral (1908)
- The Prayer (1909)
- Standing Female Faun (1910)
- Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris
- Rodin Museum, Philadelphia
- Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador
- Plateau (closed)
- 1888–89 Claudel bust
- 1909 Bourdelle bust
- Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph)
- Camille Claudel (1988 film)
- Camille Claudel (2003 musical)
- Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film)
- Rodin (2017 film)
- Rodin (crater)
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