Ugolinos Anguish: Carpeauxs Sculptural Masterpiece Capturing Dantes Harrowing Tale

Name Instructor Course Date Ugolino and his sons’ Art could represent ideas and thoughts through meaningful and tangible objects through work of art. Such is the famous sculpture of Ugolino and his sons by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux. Carpeaux was a fantastic sculptor who came up with a unique way of expressing feelings and ideas (Kathleen, 100). The works of Carpeaux were greatly influenced by the Italian sculptors of the renaissance period. Artists like Michelangelo, Donatello, and Andrea Del Verrocchio had a great influence in the works of Carpeaux (du Louvre, Musée, and François Rude, 4). Ugolino and his sons are derived from the results of Dante Alighieri. In this divine comedy, the death of the Ugolinds is well illustrated and by citing that the kids had openly offered their bodies to their father so that he could eat them alive to sustain his own (Frances A, 99-102). Before the famous works of Ugolino and his sons, Carpeaux had done undocumented works on marble. The Ugolino and his sons were done to supersede neoclassicism and romanticism by describing the combination of different historical styles in a single result. The sculpture of Ugolino and his sons has been done by the plaster version, the bronze version, and the marble version (du Louvre, Musée, and François Rude, 8-12). Carpeaux did all these versions were done in different timelines. Carpeaux did the plaster version between 1858 and 1861, followed by the bronze version that he did immediately after completing the plaster version in 1861, which he