Street art · London

The Burghers Of Calais

By Auguste Rodin

What does courage look like when death is certain? Rodin's bronze burghers, nooses round their necks, offer themselves to save Calais—raw expressionist anatomy over heroic polish, cast eternally trudging past Westminster's gothic spires.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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