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Rodin's The Kiss

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Rodin's The Kiss

A marble sculpture of two lovers in an embrace/Art & Sculpture

The Kiss is a marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin, originally titled 'Francesca da Rimini' after a character in Dante's Inferno. First carved in 1882, the original is housed in the Musee Rodin in Paris. Several full-size marble versions exist, including one at the Tate Gallery in London.

Measurements

Height1.82 m
6.3 billionGold atoms
364,000Spider silk threads
Width1.12 m
4.1 billionWater molecules
3.27Oscar statuettes
32.9 millionthsEnglish Channel crossings
Depth1.17 m
585,000E. coli bacteria
22.1 billionBohr radii
1.2 quintillionthsGlobular cluster widths
Estimated mass3,000 kg
500 billionthsGreat Pyramids of Giza
204 millionthsBrooklyn Bridge masses
7.3 thousandthsEmpty Boeing 747s
Base height3 tenths m
210 quadrillionthsSaturn orbit radii
1.5 hundredthsCricket pitches
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