In 1884, the town council of Calais commissioned Auguste Rodin to create a monument commemorating the end of the terrible siege of 1346-47, when the conquering English agreed to accept the town's surrender without punishment if six prominent citizens (burghers) would offer themselves as permanent hostages.
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The Burghers of Calais ... In 1346 the English king Edward III laid siege to the French port of Calais. Eleven months later, Edward demanded the surrender of six ...
The Burghers of Calais depicts an episode from the history of the Hundred Years' War. In 1347, after the city of Calais had been under siege for eleven ...
The monument commemorates the heroism of six leading citizens (burghers) of the French city of Calais. In the fourteenth century, at the beginning of the ...
Nov 27, 2011 · According to one French historian, the business with the barefoot burghers was a typical surrender ceremony, based on medieval penitential rites ...
In 1885, Rodin was commissioned by the French city of Calais to create a sculpture that commemorated the heroism of Eustache de Saint-Pierre, a prominent ...
This monument, commissioned to Rodin in 1884 by the city of Calais, celebrates the collective sacrifice of six notables who went to hand over the keys of ...
The six figures in Rodin's solemn, theatrical composition represent the leading citizens of Calais, who, in 1347, offered themselves as hostages to the King ...