didoofcarthage

Fallen Caryatid Carrying Her Stone and Fallen Caryatid Carrying an Urn by Auguste Rodin. Modeled 1880s and cast 1980s. Bronze. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

These sculptures are variants on a figure taken from Rodin’s monumental sculptural work The Gates of Hell, which depicts a scene from Dante’s Inferno. The Gates of Hell was inspired by Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, created in the fifteenth century for the Florence Baptistery.