Artist Auguste Rodin
     nationality French
     birth-death 1840-1917
Creation date modeled 1885, cast 1960
Materials bronze
Dimensions 5 1/2 x 23 x 17 in.
Location Norb & Ruth Schaefer, Sr. and Norb & Carolyn Schaefer Jr. Gallery
Credit line Gift of B. Gerald Cantor
Accession number 68.32

Wall Label

With her outstretched, contorted limbs, The Martyr could well be the quintessential form of The Gates of Hell, signifying emotional as well as physical torment. As an independent figure, she appears here in a horizontal format. Within The Gates, Rodin assigned her an upright position in the lintel, situated just to the left of The Thinker.

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