id: 104694 accession number: 1923.1052 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1052 updated: 2023-12-04 09:31:57.818000 Diogenes, c. 1524–27. Ugo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1479–c. 1532), after Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540). Chiaroscuro woodcut (in four shades of green); sheet: 47.7 x 34.7 cm (18 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1923.1052 title: Diogenes title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1524–27 creation date earliest: 1519 creation date latest: 1932 current location: creditline: The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: Italy, 16th century technique: chiaroscuro woodcut (in four shades of green) department: Prints collection: PR - Chiaroscuro type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Bartsch 10 (XII.100) --- CREATORS * Ugo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1479–c. 1532) - artist 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. * Parmigianino (Italian, 1503–1540) - artist Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, better known as Parmigianino (1503-1540), was an Italian Mannerist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. In Parma and upon his arrival in Rome in 1524, he experimented with print to study works by artists he admired, such as Raphael. He fled Rome at the time of its sack in 1527, and he moved to Bologna. There, he began his engagement with chiaroscuro woodcuts, collaborating with Ugo da Carpi and Antonio da Trento. Parmigianino then returned to Parma in 1530. --- measurements: Sheet: 47.7 x 34.7 cm (18 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper, laid down on wove? paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in block: FRANCISCVS / PARMEN· / PER·UGO CARP translation: remark: inscription: verso, upper center, in graphite: Sadeler 1757 / N° 4 translation: remark: inscription: upper right, in graphite: 10376 translation: remark: inscription: across center, in pen and brown ink: N 13 [t?]alla[nf?]o [I.vinton?] [entire inscription is upsidedown] translation: remark: inscription: lower left, in graphite: hos[...3--3--.] translation: remark: inscription: lower left, in pen and brown ink: [illegible monogram] translation: remark: inscription: lower left, in graphite: H. de Carpo after Parmesan / Diogenes B XII p.100.10; translation: remark: inscription: lower right, in graphite: [illegible] translation: remark: inscription: lower right, in graphite: mp[n...?]/2250[the'50' is smaller, raised, and underlined] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Old Master Prints and Drawings opening date: 1966-07-29T04:00:00 Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967). title: Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions opening date: 1980-10-21T04:00:00 Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981). title: Printing in Color opening date: 1985-09-10T04:00:00 Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985). title: Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620 opening date: 1997-08-03T00:00:00 Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997). title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00 Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003). title: Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art opening date: 2017-08-26T04:00:00 Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-December 31, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Goodspeed's Bookshop, Boston, MA) date: ?-1923 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: November 16, 1923 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1052/1923.1052_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1052/1923.1052_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1052/1923.1052_full.tif