Ugolino della Gherardesca
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Ugolino della Gherardesca, Count of Donoratico, was an Italian nobleman, politician and naval commander. He was frequently accused of treason and features prominently in Dante's Divine Comedy.
Portrait of Ugolino by Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ugolino and his sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, 1861, Petit Palais.
Torre della Muda, Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, engravings dated 1865.
Dante and Virgil in the Inferno before Ugolino and His Sons by Priamo della Quercia (15th century)
The Gates of Hell
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The Gates of Hell is a monumental bronze sculptural group work by the French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the Inferno, the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. It stands
Ugolino della Gherardesca
…is known as the "Cannibal Count" and is often depicted gnawing at his own fingers ("eating of his own flesh") in consternation, as in the sculpture The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin, in Ugolino and his Sons by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and in other artwork, though this may also simply refer to Ugolino's own statement…
At the Museo Soumaya
Porte de l'Enfer
The Kunsthaus Zürich in Zürich
Musée d'Orsay in Paris