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<em>The Thinker </em>was first developed as part of Rodin's <em>The Gates of Hell</em>, a sculptured doorway for a proposed museum of decorative arts in Paris. Intended to be part of a relief directly above the doors, the rugged figure was originally conceived as a generalized image of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), who wrote the <em>Divine Comedy</em>.</div>
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Auguste Rodin</div>
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