Ugo da Carpi
Raphael and His Mistress
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
Diogenes
Hercules and Antaeus
Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Sibyl Reading, Lighted by Child with a Torch
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".
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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