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Bourgeois de Calais - Rodin - Philadelphia Art Museum - Benjamin Franklin Parkway
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Pieces of the whole - had I been paying attention (Original Post)
GoneOffShore
Feb 2022
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Thank you. I haven't been able to get off of my butt to figure out an image hosting service
GoneOffShore
Feb 2022
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Tanuki
(14,916 posts)1. The story behind this sculpture is quite touching.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burghers_of_Calais
..."It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, surrendered to the English after an eleven-month siege. The city commissioned Rodin to create the sculpture in 1884 and the work was completed in 1889.[1][2]
In 1346, England's Edward III, after a victory in the Battle of Crécy, laid siege to Calais, while Philip VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs. Philip failed to lift the siege, and starvation eventually forced the city to parley for surrender.[3]
The contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart (c. 1337 c. 1405) tells a story of what happened next: Edward offered to spare the people of the city if six of its leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out wearing nooses around their necks, and 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 joined with him.[4] Saint Pierre led this envoy of volunteers to the city gates. It was this moment, and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice, and willingness to face imminent death that Rodin captured in his sculpture, scaled somewhat larger than life.[5]
According to Froissart's story, the burghers expected to be executed, but their lives were spared by the intervention of England's queen, Philippa of Hainault, who persuaded her husband to exercise mercy by claiming that their deaths would be a bad omen for her unborn child.[4]"...(more)
..."It commemorates an event during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, a French port on the English Channel, surrendered to the English after an eleven-month siege. The city commissioned Rodin to create the sculpture in 1884 and the work was completed in 1889.[1][2]
In 1346, England's Edward III, after a victory in the Battle of Crécy, laid siege to Calais, while Philip VI of France ordered the city to hold out at all costs. Philip failed to lift the siege, and starvation eventually forced the city to parley for surrender.[3]
The contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart (c. 1337 c. 1405) tells a story of what happened next: Edward offered to spare the people of the city if six of its leaders would surrender themselves to him, presumably to be executed. Edward demanded that they walk out wearing nooses around their necks, and 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 joined with him.[4] Saint Pierre led this envoy of volunteers to the city gates. It was this moment, and this poignant mix of defeat, heroic self-sacrifice, and willingness to face imminent death that Rodin captured in his sculpture, scaled somewhat larger than life.[5]
According to Froissart's story, the burghers expected to be executed, but their lives were spared by the intervention of England's queen, Philippa of Hainault, who persuaded her husband to exercise mercy by claiming that their deaths would be a bad omen for her unborn child.[4]"...(more)
hippywife
(22,767 posts)2. This would have been a great entry.
I thought it was an awesome theme and this would have been very fitting.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)3. Thank you. I haven't been able to get off of my butt to figure out an image hosting service
And finally did.
I post a lot on Instagram, but that hasn't helped here. I used to post here when I had a Photobucket account.
Glad that I figured out another way.
hippywife
(22,767 posts)4. I have an Instagram account, too.
And, you're correct, it doesn't help for posting here at all. I also have Reddit. I started using Reddit a couple years ago when I had to take myself out of the news cycle. Figured that would be a good place since there were all kinds of different topics to explore. I've really come to dislike the site.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,158 posts)5. Definitely would have been a contender.
Beautiful shot and great story behind it.