Condition: This sculpture is in perfect condition.
Bronze Dimensions with Marble Base: Height 15 inches X Width 5 inches
Marble Dimensions:5 inches X 5 inches
Height without base:14 inches
Weight:9 LBS
Inventory:87-880338078

Original or Reproduction: Reproduction

Rodin was strongly influenced by the work of Michelangelo. The direct experience of the Renaissance masters art, both in Italy and in the Musee du Louvre in Paris, seems to have unlocked for Rodin many of the secrets of Michelangelos modeling. Here they are used to convey the inner anguish and riveted concentration of a powerful but immobilized being. Two of Michelangelos works explain the meaning as well as the genesis of the strange gestures Rodin gave to Adam, for as Albert Elsen observed in the catalogue for an exhibition titled Rodin at the Museum of Modern Art in New York the right arm alludes to The Creation of Man, the Sistine Chapel fresco in the Vatican the left is borrowed from the dead Christ of the Pieta in the imitative Cathedral of Florence. Elsen continued: the figure is framed by the beginning and end of life, between these, his body shows its tortured existence.