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  • Thinker, The
    Thinker, The
    noun
    a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
  • The Thinker
    The Thinker
    A bronze statue by Auguste Rodin. The seated subject is supporting his chin on his wrist and his arm on his knee.

Thinker, The

American  

noun

  1. French Le Penseur. a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.


The Thinker Cultural  
  1. A bronze statue by Auguste Rodin. The seated subject is supporting his chin on his wrist and his arm on his knee.


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Michael Harlin at the American Thinker The photo is a fake, plain and simple.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2013

While remaining in place on the monumental Gates of Hell, The Thinker was exhibited individually in 1888 and thus became an independent work.

From Reuters ● Jun. 30, 2022

But right outside the school gates is the school mural, depicting a pupil in the pose of Rodin's The Thinker surrounded by pictures of Aristotle, Socrates and Plato.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2022

She thinks the Allen monument could be Gregory’s nod to Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, which points to her training in Paris in the 1920s.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 18, 2020

Mourinho hooked Jan Vertonghen after 54 minutes of the Southampton replay and the centre-half was visibly shattered, traipsing around the perimeter of the pitch before channelling Rodin’s The Thinker on the bench.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2020

My father, however, adopted the pose of his favorite piece of sculpture, The Thinker, a miniature of which sat across the room on the telephone table.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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