# Eternal Spring

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/eternal-spring-rbe4021166f0bec>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [RODIN, Auguste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Marble. height 77 cm

## Commentary

As part of the Gates of Hell, Rodin also intended to include a depiction of lovers condemned to eternal torments. This idea became the basis for many of his sculptures devoted to passion. The combination it proposed - of pleasure and torment, instantaneous ecstasy and eternity - proved exceptionally in tune with his striving to show a moment of swift movement and a paroxysm of emotion.

## Related artworks

- [Adam \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-detail-r99a2abd6c6a071>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-r7d643ad8531508>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rb152717c1f47f8>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/adam-rd0737a78f26aca>)
- [Balzac \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-detail-r8099b93f0d0220>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-r57709778c44f74>)
- [Balzac](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/balzac-rbbd14055b4a6a4>)
- [Bellona](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bellona-rf253fa0878f9c6>)
- [Bust of Étienne Clémentel](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-tienne-clmentel-re042cb8264c59e>)
- [Bust of Victor Hugo with Modeled Base](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/bust-of-victor-hugo-with-modeled-base-ra46d3460d31f54>)
- [Cathedral](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/cathedral-r22f7ad36cb0ac6>)
- [Danaid \(The Source\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/rodin-auguste-r3d20d909489aff/danaid-the-source-r6cd434fb357be7>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)