L'Enfer selon Rodin. Antique "We come from things before

"We come from things before being born from speech

putting to its service all the resources of a fiery and subtle rhetoric

Ernest Pignon-Ernest was born in Nice in 1942

the exhibition—combining drawings by early masters and incunabula

L'Enfer selon Rodin. Antique "We come from things beforeRodin's Hell allows us to relive the creation of an art icon: The Gates of Hell, the central work of Auguste Rodin's (1840 1917) career. Commissioned in 1880 for the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs, this door that does not open would occupy Rodin for twenty years during which he tirelessly returned to his theme, refining it and creating some of his most famous sculptures: The Thinker, The Kiss, Ugolino and The Shadows. Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and