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Carpeaux was born in France in 1827; he went to study in Italy in 1854. Carpeaux studied under the Romantic French sculptor Francois Rude (1784-1855), in the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts (Stokstad, 1008). There he studied the works by Michelangelo, a High Renaissance artist who was a major influence in Carpeaux sculpture. The sculpture’s main character (Ugolino) is on deep resentment and deep thought, furthermore the other small characters have all different emotions but are in unison. The story of Ugolino is that he was an Italian monarch who was accused of treason by another nobleman (Ruggieri). His punishment was to be starved to death; therefore he was kept in a tower with his sons and grandsons. The statue seems to have stored energy, which is ready to be released; the paper will try to show why there seems to be energy in statue and what it relates to the story of Ugolino. The sculpture is marble and it looks unfinished, it’s a little rougher than other sculptures in the museum. The marble in the bottom of the sculpture is unfinished and as the action goes higher in the statue the marble seems softer and more plastic. The action of the sculpture, the way in which the viewer is invited to look at the artwork is from lef