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Yeazzz !!! #Repost @dj.ferox with @get_repost ・・・ #flashbackfridayy to seeing the iconic @arminvanbuuren at @brooklynmirage! Hearing an extended set from Armin is always the best 🔥🔥🔥 (at Brooklyn, New York)

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Another London #flashbackfridayy (I promise I will get back to my Paris pics soon)! Here: Houses of Parliament as seen from the Victoria Tower Gardens.. below the Auguste Rodin Sculpture: The Burghers of Calais The story behind the great sculpture: _________________________ 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 citizen of Calais, during the dreadful Hundred Years’ War between England and France (begun in 1337). Rodin followed the recounting of Jean Froissart, a fourteenth-century French chronicler, who wrote of the war. According to Froissart, King Edward III made a deal with the citizens of Calais: if they wished to save their lives and their beloved city, then not only must they surrender the keys to the city, but six prominent members of the city council must volunteer to give up their lives. The leader of the group was Eustache de Saint-Pierre, who Rodin depicted with a bowed head and bearded face towards the middle of the gathering. To Saint-Pierre’s left, with his mouth closed in a tight line and carrying a giant set of keys, is Jean d’Aire. The remaining men are identified as Andrieu d’Andres, Jean de Fiennes, and Pierre and Jacques de Wissant. Unbeknownst to the six burghers, at the time of their departure, their lives would eventually be spared. However, here Rodin made the decision to capture these men not when they were finally released, but in the moment that they gathered to leave the city to go to their deaths. Instead of depicting the elation of victory, the threat of death is very real. Furthermore, Rodin stretched his composition into a circle causing no one man to be the focal point which allows the sculpture to be viewed in-the-round from multiple perspectives with no clear leader. _________________________ #britishhistory #rodinmuseum #londoncalling (at Houses of Parliament)