Rodin's "The Kiss" “The Kiss” by Auguste Rodin is a captivating bronze sculpture originally created for “The Gates of Hell.” It is a scene from the story by Dante, Inferno. The male is Paolo Malatesta and his lover is Francesca da Rimini. In the story Paolo is Frencesca’s husband’s brother and her tutor. Francesca seduces him with a drape of her leg over his and a kiss, until his brother finds him in the midst of kissing Francesca. At this point he kills them both. (Busco p. 60) This sculpture is extraordinary because of the precise definition of each figure’s nakedness, and the sexuality the sculpture portrays. The material of the sculpture is exquisi