The Cathedral (sculpture)

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The Cathedral
File:85 La catedral.jpg at the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City
Artist	Auguste Rodin
Year	1908
Medium	Stone (original) / bronze casting

The Arc of the Covenant^{[lower-alpha 1]} or The Cathedral^{[lower-alpha 2]} is a sculpture by the French artist Auguste Rodin, conceived in 1908.

Description

It shows two intertwined right hands belonging to two different figures.^[1]

Versions

Originally carved in stone, it was later cast in various editions in bronze.

Notes

↑ In reference to the harmony of communication represented by two humans' right hands.
↑ Renamed after the publication of Rodin's The Cathedrals of France in 1914.

References

↑ "The Cathedral". Musée Rodin.

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Works	List of sculptures Man with the Broken Nose (1863) Alsatian Orphan (1871) Suzon (1872–73) The Age of Bronze (1876) La Defense (1879) The Maiden Kissed by the Ghost (1880) The Shade (1880) The Gates of Hell (1880/1917) The Thinker (1880, locations) Adam (1880–81) Eve (1881) Crouching Woman (1880–1882) Saint John the Baptist (1880/1907) Ugolino and His Sons (1881) The Kiss (1882) I Am Beautiful (1882) The Falling Man (1882) Jules Dalou (1883) Bust of Maurice Haquette (1883) Bust of Victor Hugo (1883) Eternal Springtime (1884) Torso of Adele (c. 1884) The Burghers of Calais (1884–1889) Head of Camille Claudel (1884/1911) The Prodigal Son (1885) Mask of a Weeping Woman (1885) The Martyr (1885) Psyche Looking at Love (1885) Eustache de Saint Pierre (1885–86) Jean d'Aire (1885–86) Jean de Fiennes (1885–86) Avarice and Lust (1885–1887) Damned Women (1885–1890) The Old Tree (1885) Paolo and Francesca (1885) Young Mother (1885) Young Mother in the Grotto (1885) Young Woman with a Serpent (c. 1885) The Three Shades (1886) Meditation (1886) Fugitive Love (1886–87) Ovid's Metamorphoses (1886–1889) Pierre de Wiessant (1887) Head of Saint John the Baptist (1887) The Sirens (1887) Polyphemus (1888) Standing Mercury (1888) The Kneeling Man (1888) Adonis Awakens (1889) Andromeda (1889) Glaucus (1889) Kneeling Female Faun (1889) The Succubus (1889) Despair (c. 1890) Brother and Sister (1890) Danaid (1890) Cybele (1890/1904) Monument to Balzac (1892–1897) Balzac in the Robe of a Dominican Monk (1892) Youth Triumphant (c. 1894) Octave Mirdeau (1895) Iris, Messenger of the Gods (c. 1895) Bacchantes Embracing (c. 1896) The Spirit of Eternal Repose (1898–99) Illusions Received by the Earth (pre-1900) The Athlete (1901–1904) The Death of Adonis (1903–1906) Adam and Eve (1905) The Walking Man (1907) The Cathedral (1908) The Prayer (1909) Standing Female Faun (1910)
Museums	Musée Rodin (Hôtel Biron), Paris Rodin Museum, Philadelphia Museu Rodin Bahia, Salvador Plateau (closed)
People	Camille Claudel
Depictions	1888–89 Claudel bust 1909 Bourdelle bust Rodin — The Thinker (1902 photograph) Camille Claudel (1988 film) Camille Claudel (2003 musical) Camille Claudel 1915 (2013 film) Rodin (2017 film)
Related	Rodin (crater)
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