Gates of Hell

Rodin's The Gates of Hell is a piece that completely overshadows The
Thinker both literally and figuratively. This massive 21- by 13-foot bronze
sculpture is, to be necessarily redundant, gigantic and is aswarm with writhing,
naked bodies that will make you go home and look at the pitifully painted boring
wood of your own front portal in disdain.
Originally commissioned to be
the entrance to an art museum in Paris that was never built, The Gates of
Hell ended up being more or less a life's work for Rodin, as he worked on
the piece from 1880 until slightly after his death in 1917.