Ugolino and His Sons
Ugolino and His Sons
Introduction to Art Principles
City College of New York, CUNY
Presented by: Markous Soliman
Presented to: Prof. William Behnken
Art had played an important role in building up civilizations from all over the world through thousands of centuries. It is and will always still the way of projecting artists’ ideas and thoughts into meaningful and tangible objects which we called “work of art”. In addition, It was the path through all these years that dug its way to reach to our current century to show us the beauty of every single era starting from the Upper Paleolithic Period of time (42,000 – 8,000 BCE) reaching to our contemporary artists of today.
One of the most representing works to the Eclecticism period, a sculpture was titled “UGOLINO AND HIS SONS”. It was done in 1861 CE using Saint-Béat marble. It has a size of approximately (78.75 in. x 59 in. x 43.5 in.), height to width to depth ratio.
The sculpture was done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French sculptor and painter who was born in Valenciennes, Nord, and part of northern France in 1827. Carpeaux was a student to the French sculptor François Rude. He won the Prix de Rome in 1854 which enabled him to live in Rome (1856 – 1862). During that time he was influenced by the works of Italian sculptors of the Renaissance period such as Michelangelo, Donatello, and Andrea Del Verrocchio. He also started to increase his focus of studies on complex sculptures and bas-reliefs. His passion led him to start carving several pieces on marble before the famous work of art “Ugolino and His Sons”. Carpeaux was considered as one of the mainstream artists in Eclecticism. This movement wanted to exceed Neoclassicism and Romanticism and also described the combination, in a single work, of elements from different historical styles. Carpeaux received many honors during his lifetime until two months before he died prematurely of cancer at the age of 48 in Courbevoie in 1875
Introduction to Art Principles
City College of New York, CUNY
Presented by: Markous Soliman
Presented to: Prof. William Behnken
Art had played an important role in building up civilizations from all over the world through thousands of centuries. It is and will always still the way of projecting artists’ ideas and thoughts into meaningful and tangible objects which we called “work of art”. In addition, It was the path through all these years that dug its way to reach to our current century to show us the beauty of every single era starting from the Upper Paleolithic Period of time (42,000 – 8,000 BCE) reaching to our contemporary artists of today.
One of the most representing works to the Eclecticism period, a sculpture was titled “UGOLINO AND HIS SONS”. It was done in 1861 CE using Saint-Béat marble. It has a size of approximately (78.75 in. x 59 in. x 43.5 in.), height to width to depth ratio.
The sculpture was done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a French sculptor and painter who was born in Valenciennes, Nord, and part of northern France in 1827. Carpeaux was a student to the French sculptor François Rude. He won the Prix de Rome in 1854 which enabled him to live in Rome (1856 – 1862). During that time he was influenced by the works of Italian sculptors of the Renaissance period such as Michelangelo, Donatello, and Andrea Del Verrocchio. He also started to increase his focus of studies on complex sculptures and bas-reliefs. His passion led him to start carving several pieces on marble before the famous work of art “Ugolino and His Sons”. Carpeaux was considered as one of the mainstream artists in Eclecticism. This movement wanted to exceed Neoclassicism and Romanticism and also described the combination, in a single work, of elements from different historical styles. Carpeaux received many honors during his lifetime until two months before he died prematurely of cancer at the age of 48 in Courbevoie in 1875
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