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Which of the following is a characteristic of Auguste Rodin's sculpture Burghers of Calais?

AThe sculpture's smooth marble surface creates subtle shadows and highlights.
BThe figures are arranged in a pyramid configuration.
CThe variations in surface texture capture movement and emotion.
DThe figures convey identical facial expressions.

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Among the choices, I think the characteristic of Auguste Rodin's sculpture Burghers of Calais is C which is The variations in surface texture capture movement and emotion. 

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C. The variations in surface texture capture movement and emotion.

Explanation:

    The Monument to the Burghers of Calais, which occupied Rodin for eleven years, evokes an episode of the Hundred Years War, reported by chronicler Froissart in his "Chronicles of France" (1370-1400).

      Based on Froissart's historical account, the sculptor sets to work without a definitive contract yet. Right from the first model, the notion of collective sacrifice is imposed. It is not a Calais bourgeois he wants to represent, but six, in a slow procession. The characters that are not yet individualized, present themselves on the same plane, moving around each other, without distinction of hierarchies, dressed in simple shirts. The feet and hands of the figures are large for their size and the teatrical gestures emphasize their different attitudes; anger, fear, pride.  Eustache de Saint-Pierre, the elder, in the center of the group leans forward, his heavy hands, Jean d'Aire with his head held high, defiant, holding a key in his huge hands, Andrieu d'Andres moves his hands in despair, and Jean de Fiennes, the youngest and most reluctant, opens his arms with his hands turned inward.

          The group forms a spiral, thus making the viewer to surround them so that they can observe them in their entirety.

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