Ugo da Carpi

Ugo da Carpi (* 1480 in Carpi † 1520-1532 in Rome ) was an Italian wood engraver.

Ugo da Carpi was the son of the Count Palatine and notary Astolfo as Panico, and had a long talk in Venice, where he asked for a privilege on a newly named from him kind of Clairobscurschnitts. It has been erroneously regarded him as the inventor of the chiaroscuro in three pressure plates, and he himself speaks in his mentioned input to the Senate of Venice by an invention that he claims to have made ​​. Hans Burgkmair and Lucas Cranach, however, have ten years earlier already printed in color woodcut. 1516 he was awarded by the Senate in Venice, the patent for this new technology, two years later by Pope Leo X.. Since Carpi was an admirable wood cutter, which, among other things, the drawings by Raphael, Parmigianino understood reproduce with understanding and picturesque effect.

1972 have been discovered in Civitavecchia frescoes, which are attributed to him. 2009, these frescoes were judged by art historians and classified as "extraordinary ". The illustrations are copies of Raphael's punching in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican in Rome.