Burghers of Calais

Rodin, Auguste

dc.coverage.spatial	Repository: Stanford University (Palo Alto, California, United States)	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1884-1895 (creation)	en_US
dc.creator	Rodin, Auguste	en_US
dc.date	1884-1895	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-11T19:34:41Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-11T19:34:41Z
dc.date.issued	1884-1895	en_US
dc.identifier	183535	en_US
dc.identifier.other	archrefid: 2109	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/90510
dc.description	Overall view of the group; In late 1884 Rodin secured the civic commission for a monument to the Burghers of Calais who in 1347 had offered their lives to the English in return for ending their siege. Although commissioned to depict only the leading burgher, Eustache de St Pierre, Rodin decided to show all six, realizing each individually, first nude and then draped, in progressively larger stages, until the final scale of 2 m in height. Grouped one behind another in a ring, these gaunt figures express indecision as much as self-sacrifice. After delays caused by disapproval of the composition and financial problems within the city government, the final work was unveiled in Calais, in front of the Hôtel de Ville, in June 1895. Before 1917 three more casts were made, one of which was purchased in 1911 by the National Art Collections Fund for the Victoria Tower Gardens, London (Rodin envisaged the monument high on a pedestal, silhouetted against the Houses of Parliament). There are seven additional casts and many bronzes of the individual burghers (e.g. Geneva, Mus. A. & Hist.; Minneapolis, MN, Inst. A.; Paris, Mus. Rodin). Stanford's group are independant casts. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/16/2010)	en_US
dc.format.medium	bronze	en_US
dc.rights	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.	en_US
dc.subject	historical	en_US
dc.subject	human figure	en_US
dc.subject	military or war	en_US
dc.subject	Hundred Years War	en_US
dc.subject	Romantic	en_US
dc.subject	Nineteenth century	en_US
dc.title	Burghers of Calais	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Les Bourgeois de Calais	en_US
dc.type	image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	6A1-RA-BC-A2	en_US
vra.culturalContext	French	en_US
vra.technique	casting (process)	en_US
vra.worktype	sculpture (visual work)	en_US
dc.contributor.display	Auguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)	en_US