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R200603674 Eun-Jin Hyun The Gates of Hell                Unlike heaven, the concept about Hell is so little that the image is mostly connected to only fire and brimstones in a   very vague way. Still, there is one piece of art that gives a quite concrete picture of hell. Auguste Rodin's sculpture "The   Gates of Hell" depicts a scene from Dante Alighieri's "The Inferno" representing a very clear vision how Hell would look   like; a place where it is full of people suffering from their sins. This bronze sculpture gate stands at 6.35m high, 4m wide and   about 1m deep with two door panels. It contains 186 human figures which are entangled with each other and have   wretched faces on them. Among them, there are several outstanding statues in "The Gates of Hell". On the very top of the   gate, stand three sculptures, called the "The Three Shades,"which are 98cm high, posing downwards, heads bended and   arm stretched with their fist clenched. Below them and right upon the door panels, there is a statue which is sitting and   looking down on other figures. Also known as "The Thinker," this sculpture has its elbow on its knee and the hand holding   his chin, while the other arm is just resting on the same leg. Beneath it, there are smaller figures on the door panels and on   the panes surrounding the door. "The Gates of Hell" does not demonstrate scary carvings, but conveys the idea of hell by   expressing humans' pains and agony in its statues.