Auguste Rodin's The Kiss is a statue depicting embracing lovers. It was originally designed to represent the 13th-century Italian heiress memorialized in Dante's Inferno. The woman had developed feelings for her husband's brother. The pair is found and slain by the husband, after falling in love while studying the tale of Lancelot and Guinevere. The book may be seen in Paulo's hand in the artwork. The lovers' lips do not make contact in the statue, implying that they were disturbed and died without their lips ever touching. This artwork was originally intended to be part of a set of reliefs that adorned Rodin's enormous bronze doorway and depicted scenes from Dante's book, The Divine Comedy (1314). The couple was eventually excluded from the Gates and substituted by another pair of lovers. Another of Rodin's most famous works, The Thinker, was created to sit at the very apex of the gates contemplating the scenes of torment below.