Auguste Rodin:
Sculpture "Pierre de Wissant", art casting edition
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Museum-replica |bronze art | Handmade | Patinated | Height: 43 cm
Rodin's famous "Burghers of Calais" is a historical symbol of self-sacrifice: In the 100-year-old war Calais was besieged by the English fleet and offered 11-month heroic resistance, until the famine affected people offered the surrender. King Edward III. accepted under the condition that on behalf for the city 6 citizens appeared voluntarily to own execution: "Bareheaded and unshod - with the gown of the poor sinner clothed and the cords on the back of the neck". At the request from queen Philippine, Edward III spared the life of the brave men and renounced the devastation of the city.
In his masterpiece created in 1886, Auguste Rodin illustrated for the first time no powerful, but the brave act of simple citizens. Today as a national monument of England as well as France a cast of the life-Size: sculpture group stands in each case behind the " Houses of Parliament " in London, in the garden of the " hotel of Biron " of Calais - and in the Metropolitan art Mmuseum , New York.
Polymeric Ars Mundi museum replica edition, hand cast, polymeric art bronze, fine patinated. Sculpture Height: 43 cm.
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Auguste Rodin: Sculpture "Pierre de Wissant", art casting edition
Rodin's famous "Burghers of Calais" is a historical symbol of self-sacrifice: In the 100-year-old war Calais was besieged by the English fleet and offered 11-month heroic resistance, until the famine affected people offered the surrender. King Edward III. accepted under the condition that on behalf for the city 6 citizens appeared voluntarily to own execution: "Bareheaded and unshod - with the gown of the poor sinner clothed and the cords on the back of the neck". At the request from queen Philippine, Edward III spared the life of the brave men and renounced the devastation of the city.
In his masterpiece created in 1886, Auguste Rodin illustrated for the first time no powerful, but the brave act of simple citizens. Today as a national monument of England as well as France a cast of the life-Size: sculpture group stands in each case behind the " Houses of Parliament " in London, in the garden of the " hotel of Biron " of Calais - and in the Metropolitan art Mmuseum , New York.
Polymeric Ars Mundi museum replica edition, hand cast, polymeric art bronze, fine patinated. Sculpture Height: 43 cm.