The
Burghers of
Artist: Auguste Rodin
A. thesis Thesis
statement and iInftroduction
The Burghers of
Calais was one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste
Rodin, completed in 1888. It was serves
served
as a monument to an occurrence in 1347 during the Hundred Yearsf
War, when
It was a
naturalistic and representational sculpture made of Bronze. knowledge idea
painfully. After Later,
a tourist in the Stanford museum told me the story behind it, I
realize I was wrong. Actually, they were heroes who were willing to sacrifice themselves to save a city.
B. Discussion
that backs
Backs up Up
this central Central
ideaIdea.
The story behind
eThe Burghers of Calaish was about happened around
England's Edward III after a victory in
the Battle of Credcy, laid siege to Calais and Philip
VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs.
This monument was different
from traditional monuments. In the traditional monuments, they always show
heroes striding forward proudly like Vaquero which in out textbook p255 11.5.
He was wearing a steel armature and daredevil. However Rodin
depicted these men are extremely pain when knowing that they have to leave
their homes and families. He distorted the figures to express emotional trauma:
the enlarged hands and feet emphasize their melancholy gestures and faltering
steps, the tautened muscles convey a sense of physical stress, and the deeply
sunken eyes and furrowed brows express heart-rending torment.
This method of sculptures
is like Kuya Praching which in
our textbook p.263 11.17. They
are both representational sculptures. They both consider the proportion of the
character. Also, they used a contrapposto, to set the
body in a gentle S-shaped curve through a play of opposites, to show burgherfs
painful action. However the theme of these two sculptures was totally different,
diedeath. The Burghersf reaction when they notice that they were going to
die.
Why I chose this
sculpture from all the printings and sculptures in at
Stanford? The pillar main reason
behind it
was because I was attracted by its story. Though The
Burghers of Calasi, I could tell those people were extremely painful when they
realized that they were going to die, then I started to wonder why they still
made this painful decision. Form
the research that I had, when
In short, I really
appreciated Eustace de St. Pierrefs courage and charisma. He sacrificed himself
to save others life and five was follow. Therefore I chose this to describe in
my term paper.
C. Conclusion.
The Burghers of Calais
was a sad story in ful,
perplexingperplexation, claim
etc. it was a famous sculpture we can find it all around in the A,
such as , at it too.
Figure 1. Burghers were extremely pain when knowing that they have to leave
their homes and families.
Figure 2.
TheyBurghers were wearing nooses around their necks and carrying the keys to the
city and castle.
Figure 3. The
information posted next to the sculpture.
Auguste Rodin
Second Maquettes (Studies)
for the
Burghers of
Bronze, 1/12
Godard Foundry,
cast 1979
Gift of the B. Gerald Cantor Collection,
1992.146
Jean dfAire,1885-86
Bronze,3/12
Scsse Foundry, cast 1971
Gift of the
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sourceReference:
Book: Gilberfs living with art 2005.Mark Getlein McGraw-Hill
Website: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais
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Virtual Gallery http://www.cantorfoundation.org/Rodin/Gallery/rvg31.html
(accessed