Art 104 1200 Research Paper Sample
ART 104 1200
NAME: COLLINS OSEI MENSAH
CLASS: ART 104 1200 RESEACH PAPER
TITLE: UGOLINO AND HIS SONS
PROFESSOR: DR. FLORENCE QUIDEAU.
DATE: APRIL 14TH, 2016.
Fig 1. Ugolino and His Sons Artist: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827- 1875). Date: 1865-1867. Medium: Saint-Beat Marble. Classification: Sculpture.
Ugolino and His Sons.
The sheer anguish, grieve and the indescribable pain written all over the faces of Ugolino, his two sons and two grandsons in this amazingly sculpted artwork captures your imagination and gets you having a whole lot of questions to ask the first time you set your eyes on this masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum. It’s location in the hall cannot be missed because it is literally positioned in the center. The “Ugolino and His Sons” master depicts Ugolino grieving in melancholy gnawing on his fingers with his sons and grandsons calmly pleading with him that he eats them instead. It shows the imprisonment and starvation of Ugolino who according to Dante’s poem Inferno. I chose to write about this masterpiece by Carpeaux because I was very interested and curious to research about the main idea behind it. The mere sight of the artwork tells a lot even though you may not know anything about it. The main idea for this artwork primarily came from a poem composed with Dante …show more content…
They are all in the nude. The art of cannibalism associated with the idea behind is very fascinating to behold. The fact that Ugolino yields to the temptation to devour his sons and grandsons is beyond imagination. What really impresses me about this sculpture evidence of Carpeaux’s knowledge of the anatomy of human body and how was able to incorporate those ideas into the sculpting of this
NAME: COLLINS OSEI MENSAH
CLASS: ART 104 1200 RESEACH PAPER
TITLE: UGOLINO AND HIS SONS
PROFESSOR: DR. FLORENCE QUIDEAU.
DATE: APRIL 14TH, 2016.
Fig 1. Ugolino and His Sons Artist: Jean Baptiste Carpeaux (French, Valenciennes 1827- 1875). Date: 1865-1867. Medium: Saint-Beat Marble. Classification: Sculpture.
Ugolino and His Sons.
The sheer anguish, grieve and the indescribable pain written all over the faces of Ugolino, his two sons and two grandsons in this amazingly sculpted artwork captures your imagination and gets you having a whole lot of questions to ask the first time you set your eyes on this masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum. It’s location in the hall cannot be missed because it is literally positioned in the center. The “Ugolino and His Sons” master depicts Ugolino grieving in melancholy gnawing on his fingers with his sons and grandsons calmly pleading with him that he eats them instead. It shows the imprisonment and starvation of Ugolino who according to Dante’s poem Inferno. I chose to write about this masterpiece by Carpeaux because I was very interested and curious to research about the main idea behind it. The mere sight of the artwork tells a lot even though you may not know anything about it. The main idea for this artwork primarily came from a poem composed with Dante …show more content…
They are all in the nude. The art of cannibalism associated with the idea behind is very fascinating to behold. The fact that Ugolino yields to the temptation to devour his sons and grandsons is beyond imagination. What really impresses me about this sculpture evidence of Carpeaux’s knowledge of the anatomy of human body and how was able to incorporate those ideas into the sculpting of this