Friday, July 12, 2024

Le Penseur

July 12, 2024, at home

What's interesting about this sculpture, The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) by Auguste Rodin, is that his right elbow is on his left thigh/knee. Sit in a chair, and do that. I found it to be very uncomfortable, which is apparently why Rodin constructed it that way. (I saw this statue in Paris, France, many years ago.)

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