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Ugo da Carpi

Raphael and His Mistress Print by Ugo da Carpi

Raphael and His Mistress

Hercules and the Nemean Lion Print by Ugo da Carpi

Hercules and the Nemean Lion

Diogenes Print by Ugo da Carpi

Diogenes

Hercules and Antaeus Print by Ugo da Carpi

Hercules and Antaeus

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses Print by Ugo da Carpi

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

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Descent from the Cross

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Hero and Sibyl

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Thesauro de scrittori

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Sibyl Reading, Lighted by Child with a Torch

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Diogenes, after Parmigianino

Ugo da Carpi (c. 1480 – between 1520 and 1532), painter and printmaker, the first Italian practitioner of the art of the chiaroscuro woodcut, a technique involving the use of several wood blocks to make one print, each block cut to produce a different tone of the same colour.[1] In 1516, he requested from the Venetian senate a patent for his method "of making from woodcuts prints that seem as though painted". Most of his prints depict works by Raphael and Parmigianino, including one entitled "Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses".

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Ugo da Carpi’s patent supplication for the invention of the chiaroscuro woodcut, 1516.
24 July 1516
Archivio di Stato, user terminal
Collegio of the Government of the Republic of Venice

His best known engravings include "A Sybil", "Descent from the Cross", and "History of Simon the Sorcerer".

Recently, some historians have speculated that some frescoes found in Civitavecchia have been painted by the artist.

References

"Ugo da Carpi." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 24 Feb. 2011.

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