Artgal

by Albert Turoń

Artgal

by Albert Turoń

cultures artists

Ugo da Carpi

Nationality

Italian

Lifetime

1479-1532

Biography

Born in Carpi (modern-day province of Modena) in ca. 1468/70, Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian chiaroscuro woodcut designer. Active in Venice from around 1509, he produced several woodcuts from small book illustrations to monumental multi-block prints. Concerned with issues relating to authenticity, Ugo usually signed his works, an uncommon practice at that time. In 1516, he petitioned the Venetian Senate for the privilege of having invented the technique of chiaroscuro woodcut. however, it is likely that Ugo developed his method upon seeing earlier German examples. In his prints, Ugo abandoned the traditional cross-hatching manner in favor of the use of tone blocks. In 1516-18, Ugo moved to Rome and executed the majority of his chiaroscuro woodcuts after designs by Raphael and through the intermediary of engravings by Marcantonio Raimondi and Agostino Veneziano. After the sack of Rome in 1527, Ugo settled in Bologna where he collaborated with Parmigianino, before dying in 1532.

Artworks

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Diogenes

Ugo da Carpi

Parmigianino

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Sibyl Reading with a Child Holding a Tor...

Ugo da Carpi

Raphael

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Descent from the Cross

Ugo da Carpi

Raphael

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Hercules Driving Envy from the Temple of...

Ugo da Carpi

Balthasar Peruzzi