Diogenes
c. 1524–27
Ugo da Carpi
Ugo da Carpi (Italian, c. 1479–c. 1532)
Prints
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 In his Lives of the Artists (1550), Giorgio Vasari described Diogenes twice, praising it as Ugo da Carpi's most accomplished and beautiful print.
- Maker/Artist
- Ugo da Carpi
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- chiaroscuro woodcut (in four shades of green)
- Medium
- chiaroscuro, woodcut, shades, green
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 47.7 x 34.7 cm (18 3/4 x 13 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower left, in block: FRANCISCVS / PARMEN· / PER·UGO CARP Inscription: verso, upper center, in graphite: Sadeler 1757 / N° 4 Inscription: upper right, in graphite: 10376 Inscription: across center, in pen and brown ink: N 13 [t?]alla[nf?]o [I.vinton?] [entire inscription is upsidedown] Inscription: lower left, in graphite: hos[...3--3--.] Inscription: lower left, in pen and brown ink: [illegible monogram] Inscription: lower left, in graphite: H. de Carpo after Parmesan / Diogenes B XII p.100.10; Inscription: lower right, in graphite: [illegible] Inscription: lower right, in graphite: mp[n...?]/2250[the'50' is smaller, raised, and underlined]
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1923.1052
- Credit Line
- The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund
- Exhibitions
- Old Master Prints and Drawings, Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions, Printing in Color, Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620, Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection, Gods and Heroes: Ancient Legends in Renaissance Art
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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