Ugolino and his Sons
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A black and white print of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's Ugolino and his Sons (1861) — the French sculptor's most ambitious work, a tangle of four bodies that translates Dante's Inferno Canto XXXIII into marble. Count Ugolino della Gherardesca, imprisoned in the Torre della Muda in Pisa with his sons and grandsons and left to starve, sits twisted in anguish as the boys collapse against him.
Carpeaux produced the sculpture as his final envoi from the Villa Medici in Rome during his years as a Prix de Rome laureate. The choice of subject was deliberately Michelangelesque — the knotted bodies, the tension through the torsos, the pyramid composition — and it was received at the time as the French Romantic equivalent of the torments carved by Michelangelo in the Medici Chapel and by Bernini in the Baroque.
The marble now held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was carved in 1865–67; the original plaster is at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The horror of the Dante passage — that Ugolino's final hunger may have overcome him before death — is left deliberately ambiguous in Carpeaux's gesture, the count biting his knuckles. In black and white, the interlocked bodies read as a single dark form.
- Museum-grade Giclée print
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- Weight: 200 g/m2
- Material: 100% FSC® certified paper
- Finish: Matte, natural white
- Inks: Premium archival, water-based
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
Free framing service: Expertly assembled in a dust-free environment, arriving ready-to-hang.
- 2cm wide, 2.2cm deep
- Material: Lightweight FSC® certified ash wood
- Finish: Smooth satin laminate, or uncoated wood grain (Natural)
- Glaze: Shatterproof Perspex
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
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