Figure 31-31 JEAN-BAPTISTE CARPEAUX, Ugolino and His Children,
18651867. Marble, 6 5 high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, Inc. and the
Charles Ulrich and Josephine Bay Foundation, Inc., gifts,
1967).
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3 Carpeaux combines Realism, Renaissance and Baroque sculpture.
Based on a passage in Dantes Inferno, Count Ugolino and his 4 sons
are starving to death locked in a tower; his children offer
themselves as food upon seeing their father bite his hands in
grief
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Auguste Rodin Interested by movement and texture in his work.
These themes have parallels to Impressionism and Photography. Used
his fingers to work sculptures in clay and then later made molds
for bronze castings.
10 Rodins mastery of anatomy and his ability to capture
transitory motion are acutely demonstrated in the headless and
armless figure in mid-stride Rodin: I have always sought to give
some indication of movement in my statuesrarely depicting complete
reposephotographs present the odd appearance of a man suddenly
stricken with paralysis and petrified in his poseit is the artist
who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality
time does not stop.
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Figure 31-33 AUGUSTE RODIN, Burghers of Calais, 1884-1889.
Bronze, 6 10 high, 7 11 long, 6 6 deep. Musee Rodin, Paris. The
Burghers of Calais commemorates a heroic episode in the Hundred
Years War. During the English siege of Calais (France) in 1347, 6
of the citys leaders offer themselves in return for the English
kings promise to lift the siege and spare everyone else Rodin
designed it without a traditional high base in the hope that the
citizens of Calais would be inspired by the representation of their
ancestors standing eye-level in the city center preparing to leave
on their sacrificial journey.