The Quiz: What was the original name of the Auguste Rodin sculpture “The Thinker”?
The Dreamer
The Poet
The Listless
The Person
Originally named “The Poet” in honor of the poet Dante, Auguste Rodin’s bronze sculpture “The Thinker” was commissioned in 1880 as part of “The Gates of Hell,” a pair of bronze doors to a planned museum in Paris. That museum, however, was never constructed, and “The Poet” found new life as a standalone piece called “The Thinker,” which now sits in the gardens of the Rodin Museum in Paris.
The correct answer to this quiz is The Poet.