Much less known today than Auguste Rodin (who was 13 years younger than Carpeaux, but lived well into the 20th century), Carpeaux was the most important sculptor in France in the mid-19th century-at a time and in a country that was then glorifying the new renaissance of sculpture. The Metropolitan Museum is currently displaying some of its treasures in a focused show on French 19th century sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. Credit Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Ugolino in the sculpture “Ugolino and His Sons,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Langdon goes on to discuss ways that Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings drew from Dante’s vision of hell, even when that vision was at odds with certain details in the Bible.
He wrote a poem dedicated to Dante, which says in part, “Ne’er walked the earth a greater man than he.”ĭan Brown’s Langdon character calls this poem a virtual “blurb” from Michelangelo encouraging Renaissance Italians to read Dante. But how cognizant were the actual Renaissance geniuses of their debt to Dante? Dan Brown helps answer that question in his Inferno by having the fictional Professor Robert Langdon call our attention to one of Michelangelo’s lesser known roles: In addition to his better known roles as a painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo was also a poet. Even though the poet Dante Alighieri lived and wrote at least a century before the time that most scholars would designate as the beginning of the Renaissance, it is easy today to look back at Dante’s Divine Comedy and see the origins of Renaissance thinking.
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