French sculptor François-Auguste-René Rodin (1840-1917), one of the world's great
sculptors and most famous as creator of “The Thinker,” was commissioned in 1884 by
the town of Calais to portray the human drama of an event that occurred in the 14th
century. In 1347, King Edward III of England, who had the French people at his mercy,
ordered 6 citizens to come forward with their heads and feet bare. King Edward would
do as he desired with these 6 people, and in return he would lift the year-long siege
of the city. Six citizens, the burghers, volunteered to be martyrs for their families
and friends.
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In recognition of the important part that art has had in the Mayo Clinic environment since the original Mayo Clinic building was finished in 1914, the Mayo Clinic Proceedings will feature some of the numerous works of art displayed throughout the buildings on the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester, Minn.
Adapted by Ann M. Sullivan, BA, ELS, from an inscribed plaque hanging next to the “Jean D'Aire” sculpture in the Hage Atrium of the Siebens Building, Rochester, Minn.
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