Objects in Focus : Ugolino and his Sons

This week’s featured model is the famous sculpture group ‘<a href="https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-ugolino-and-his-sons-268545" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ugolino and his Sons</a>’ by the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. The sculpture, standing at just under two metres, epitomises the Romantic preoccupation with extreme physical and emotional states. The subject is taken from Dante’s Inferno, in which a suspected traitor, Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, is condemned to die imprisoned in a tower with his sons and grandsons. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:630/1*a9vqL4rCSb8JKWQ8KC7i_Q.jpeg" style="height:700px; width:700px" /> Carpeaux depicted the moment at which the count, yielding to hunger and despair, contemplates cannibalism. Ugolino looks into the distance, the style reflecting the Vatican’s <a href="https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-laocoon-and-his-sons-52652" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Laocoon and His Sons</a>. His posture ignores the four children that cling to his body as if he were unaware they were there — the youngest is curled at his feet and possibly dead. <a href="https://medium.com/scantheworld/objects-in-focus-ugolino-and-his-sons-6c14f50d49b4">Website</a>