Ugolino and his Sons


Caption
Three-quarter view from front right
Date
8/16/2013 (creation)
Related person
Auguste Rodin (was created by)
Date
enlargement, ca. 1904 (creation)
Location
Europe->France->Île-de-France, Région->Paris->Musée Rodin
Description
Rodin must have been very impressed by Carpeaux Ugolino (1861, Musée d'Orsay), the famous sculpture whose dramatic subject was drawn from Dante Divine Comedy. Twenty years later, after receiving the commission for The Gates of Hell, he made several sketches of this Dantesque theme dear to the Romantics: imprisoned, driven crazy by hunger, Ugolino, Count of Gheradesca, devoured his dead children, a crime for which he was eternally damned. This bronze was created as an enlargement of the Gates group in ca. 1904 and the large-scale bronze now stands in the pool in the gardens of the Hôtel Biron.
Style/Period
Nineteenth century (LCSH)
Material
bronze