Son of Ugolino
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Son of Ugolino
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Published 2020-09-03T13:34:34+00:00
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Rodin must have been very impressed by Carpeaux’s Ugolino (1861, Musée d’Orsay), the famous sculpture whose dramatic subject was drawn from Dante’s 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 is one of the plaster models created in preparation for the major group piece, which was later to be featured on his Gates of Hell as well as a freestanding version.
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| Date de publication | 03/09/2020 |
| Complexité | Difficult |
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| Titre | Son of Ugolino |
| Date | 1902-1903 |
| Accession | S. 3442 |
| Période | Impressionist |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Rodin Donation, 1916 |
| Record | http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/collections/sculptures/ugolino-and-his-children |
| Artiste | Auguste Rodin |
| Localisation | Musée Rodin |
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Incredible plasticity and unbelievable postures. I’m trying through earth tones and strong transitions to support the feeling of roughness and fragile imperfection transferred to me through these sculptures. Hope you enjoy! I always wondered how sculpts would look like if painted. This started when I was told that the sculpts in the metope of Parthenon where painted and what remains today is the decoloured marble after many ages.
Some times I just try to paint, but in other cases, something provocative comes into my mind and I follow a more creative path. In any case, enjoy!
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