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Left to right: the Baptistry, the Cathedral, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The Baptistry of St. John (Battistero di San Giovanni) faces the Cathedral of Pisa across the Piazza del Duomo. The Leaning Tower of Pisa is at the eastern end of the complex. The red X marks the place the young vendor sits.

Map showing the complex that includes the Baptistry, the Cathedral, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The red X by the entrance of the Baptistry marks the place the young souvenir vendor set up his stall.

Since 1949, Rodin’s cast bronze sculpture, The Gates of Hell, has been mounted on the facade of the Kunsthaus Zürich.

One of the three original bronze castings of The Gates of Hell is in the collection of The National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo. The museum’s extensive Rodin collection includes The Thinker (shown here), ancast bronze enlargement of the seated figure near the top of The Gates of Hell.

Rodin’s Gates of Hell at the Rodin Museum, part of the Samsungcomplex at the base of the Great South Gate along TaePyong-Ro, Seoul, South Korea.

The Gates of Hell (detail showing patina), at the Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is one of the original three bronze casts. Photo courtesy of I-Okatah.jpg

The original plaster cast for Auguste Rodin’s Gates of Hell (Porte d’Enfer) at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

A relatively clear look at the figures, in the round and in relief, on the Gates of Hell.