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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Musée Rodin (Paris, Île-de-France, France)en_US
dc.coverage.temporalenlargement, ca. 1904 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorRodin, Augusteen_US
dc.date1904en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T18:13:00Z
dc.date.available2016-08-23T18:13:00Z
dc.date.issued1904en_US
dc.identifier267857en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3339en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184171
dc.descriptionOverall side view on plinth in pond; 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 bronze was created as an enlargement of the Gates group in ca. 1904 and the large-scale bronze now stands in the pool in the gardens of the Hôtel Biron. Source: Musée Rodin [website]; http://www.musee-rodin.fr/en/ (accessed 6/18/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumbronzeen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjecthuman figureen_US
dc.subjectliterary or legendaryen_US
dc.subjectDante Alighieri, 1265-1321en_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleUgolino and his Sonsen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode6A1-RA-UAHS-A01en_US
vra.culturalContextFrenchen_US
vra.techniquemodeling (forming), casting (process)en_US
vra.worktypesculpture (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayAuguste Rodin (French sculptor, 1840-1917)en_US


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