The Burghers of Calais Calais, France by David Carton upixa images
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| ROMPS (Recommended Output Max Print Size at 300dpi): | 7.9 inches width x 12.2 inches high 20.1 centimetres width x 31 centimetres high |
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| Filesize (original JPEG at highest available resolution): | 4.2Mb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Image credit: | David Carton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shoot date: | 2006-09-03 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geographic Location: | Calais, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short Caption (Description of Content) | The Burghers of Calais | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subject Matter | art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Keywords | The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1888. It serves as a monument to an occurrence in 1347 during the Hundred Years War, when Calais, an important French port on the English Channel, was under siege by the English for over a year., , The story goes that England's Edward III laid siege to Calais and Philip VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs. Philip failed to lift the siege and starvation eventually forced to city to parlay for surrender. Edward offered to spare the people of the city if any six of its top leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out almost naked and wearing nooses around their necks and be carrying the keys to the city and castle. One of the wealthiest of the town leaders, Eustache de Saint Pierre, volunteered first and five other burghers soon followed suit and they stripped down to their breeches. Saint Pierre led this envoy of emaciated volunteers to the city gates and it is this moment and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice and the facing one's imminent mortality that Rodin captures in these figures, which are scaled somewhat larger than life., , In history, though the burghers expected to be executed, their lives were spared by the intervention of England's Queen, Philippa of Hainault | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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