Head of Pierre de Wissant
Head of Pierre de Wissant
Published 2016-01-05T18:43:03+00:00
This is one of the most famous sculptures by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in his dramatic Group 'The Burghers of Calais' from 1889. In this larger-than-life portrait, Pierre de Wissant's introspective agony is amplified to an almost unbearable intensity. The tilt of the head, given greater emphasis through the unusual base of the sculpture, makes this agony even more poignant. The source of Wissant's anguish was his decision to join five other civic leaders who agreed to sacrifice their own lives in 1367 to free their beseiged city of Calais from English occupation.
Rodin produced many variants of the group piece (available to download here), check out the rest of his collection on MyMiniFactory!
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Scanned : Photogrammetry (Processed using Agisoft PhotoScan)
Infill 20%, with support and layer high 0,2.
Date published | 05/01/2016 |
Time to do | 480 - 550 minutes |
Material Quantity | 8 |
Dimensions | 73mmx85mmx130mm |
Technology | FDM |
Complexity | Easy |
Title | Head of Pierre de Wissant at The Fine Arts Museum |
Date | 1884-1885 |
Dimension | 81.3 x 48.3 x 52.1 cm |
Period | Modeled ca. 1884-1885, enlarged before 1909, cast 1980 |
Medium | Bronze |
Credit | http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.120 |
Record | http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1920.120 |
Artist | Auguste Rodin |
Place | Cleveland Museum of Art |
From my Rodin collection of prints. I always wondered how sculpts would look like if painted. This started when I was told that the sculpts in the metope of Parthenon where painted and what remains today is the decoloured marble after many ages.
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