Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• sculpture • European art
*Work
Type [link]:
• statue
*Title:
Adam
*Creator
Display: Auguste Rodin (French, 1840-1917)
*Role
[link]: sculptor [link]: Rodin,
Auguste
*Creation
Date: cast by the artist in 1910 or 1911,
from a model made in 1880 [controlled]:
Qualifier: design
• Earliest:
1880 • Latest: 1880
| Qualifier:
casting • Earliest:
1910 • Latest: 1911
*Subject
[links]: • human figure •
Adam (Genesis, Bible) • Gates of Hell
(Christian iconography) • Creation (Genesis,
Bible) • male • nude (representation)
Culture [link]:
French
*Current
Location [link]: Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States)
• ID:
1911.173.1
*Measurements:
193.7 cm (height) (76 1/4 inches)
[controlled]: • Value:
193.7 Unit:
cm Type: height
*Materials
and Techniques: bronze
Material [links]:
• bronze
Description: Figure
represents Adam being first roused to life, and
makes obvious references to the scene by Michelangelo
in the Sistine Chapel; design was originally intended
for Rodin's Gates of Hell.
Description Source
[link]: Metropolitan Museum of Art online.
www.metmuseum.org
Page: accessed
17 September 2006
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