Identifier: printsbriefrevie00rich (find matches)
Title: Prints; a brief review of their technique and history
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Richter, Emil Heinrich, 1869-
Subjects: Engraving -- History Engravers
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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DIOGENES Chiaroscuro woodcut by Ugo da Carpi ITALY the chiaroscuro takes a step in the directionof painting by translating color into severalgraded tones giving the efiect of a semi-colored wash-drawing. The process wasused in various ways, in various countriesand at various times, but the golden era ofchiaroscuro is the sixteenth century in Italy.The example selected, Diogenes, by Ugoda Carpi, is one of the finest of the period.It is impossible to render in this mono-chrome reproduction the rich glow of super-imposed tones of golden and greenish browns,which constitute its greatest charm; chia-roscuros must be seen themselves to be ap-preciated. One can then see what mannerof success attended the wood-cutters en-deavors, the endless possibilities of varietyof tones become apparent, also the difficultyattendant upon the accurate placing (regis-ter) of the paper on the three or more suc-cessive blocks printed from, one for eachtone. A few scattered experiments in Ger-many, during the pe

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