Focus on Ugolino and His Sons (Rodin) and explain the Background and conception.
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, a 19th-century French sculptor, started a project about Ugolino and his Sons for the French Academy of Fine Arts. This was an independent piece to be delivered to the French Government after winning a scholarship for travelling to Rome to study at Villa Medici. For several years, he worked on a sculpture that transmitted agony, fury and desperation.: 336  The main character has one hand on his chin and his fingers in the mouth.
French Villa Medici Ugolino and his Sons Rome Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Academy of Fine Arts