Ugolino and his son were Ugolino marble sculptures made in Paris in the 1860s by Jean-baptiste Carpeaux. It depicts the story of Dante’s Ugolino in Hell, and the Earl of 13th century was imprisoned and starved together with his children. The work, described in its details, Carpeaux a career.

He work is highly expressive of the Ugolino della Gherardesca of the Canto XXXIII of Dante ‘ s Inferno. In the story, Pisan Earl Ugolino was sentenced to death and was in the tower jail with his children and grandchildren. Carpeaux showed Ugolino at the moment when he thought he was eating people.

This work is a symbol of romantic style of physical and emotional state. Ugolino looked far away. His posture ignores four children clinging to his body as if he didn’t know they were there-the smallest man curled up at his feet and might have died. In the original, Ugolino for his child’s painful death, whether he eats the flesh of his children is not clear to the reader, as it did in the sculpture . Ugolino’s body, though starving, is well muscled. Its style reflects the Vatican’s Laocoön and his son.

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