The Burghers of Calais (cast) by Auguste Rodin

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bronze sculpture sculpture

The Burghers of Calais (cast) by Auguste Rodin is a bronze sculpture depicting six leaders of Calais during the Hundred Years’ War, renowned for its expressive realism and emotional intensity.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	bronze sculpture → sculpture →
basedOn	historical account by Jean Froissart →
castTechnique	lost-wax casting →
commissionedFor	Calais, France →
completedIn	1889 →
countryOfOrigin	France →
creator	Auguste Rodin →
depicts	Andrieu d’Andres → Eustache de Saint Pierre → Jacques de Wissant → Jean de Fiennes → Jean d’Aire → Pierre de Wissant NERFINISHED →
depictsConflict	Hundred Years’ War →
depictsEvent	Siege of Calais →
exhibitedAt	Calais, France → Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. → Kunsthaus Zürich → Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York → National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo → Rodin Museum, Paris → Victoria Tower Gardens, London →
genre	public art →
hasMultipleCasts	true →
hasPart	individualized heads and hands → six life-size figures →
inception	1884 →
influenced	20th-century public sculpture →
languageOfTitle	French →
materialUsed	bronze →
movement	Modern sculpture → Realism →
notableFor	emotional intensity → expressive realism → group composition of six figures → innovative treatment of public monument →
originalCommissionedBy	City of Calais →
originalTitle	Les Bourgeois de Calais →
portraysEmotion	courage → despair → fear → resignation →
style	dramatic gesture → naturalistic modeling →
subject	civic heroism → human suffering in war → self-sacrifice of Calais leaders →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Philadelphia Museum of Art →	notableWorkInCollection