The Thinker

Originally conceived as Dante meditating over the Inferno for the top of Rodin's Gates of Hell. Removed and enlarged, he became a universal figure — body and mind tensed against each other. Rodin: "What makes my Thinker think is that he thinks not only with his brain, with his knitted brow, his distended nostrils and compressed lips, but with every muscle of his arms, back, and legs."