Envy Driven From the Temple of the Muses Art

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Hercules Driving Green-eyed from the Temple of the Muses

Hercules Driving Green-eyed from the Temple of the Muses

1522–24

Chiaroscuro woodcut (in black and gray)

Support:Beige(i) laid newspaper

Sheet: 29.5 x 22.5 cm (11 v/8 10 8 seven/8 in.)

Gift of Ralph King 1925.443

Catalogue raisonné:Bartsch 12 (XII.133)

State:ii/ii

Location

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In that location are two versions of the Hercules Driving Envy from the Temple of the Muses composition. The CMA chiaroscuro woodcut corresponds to version B, in which figures are modeled using less cross-hatching and more highlights in tone blocks.

Description

The term chiaroscuro combines the Italian words chiaro (low-cal) and scuro (dark). Invented to emulate drawings with lite and dark pigments on tinted paper, the printing technique uses multiple woodblocks to layer different tones of color. Hither, Ugo da Carpi—the progenitor of the chiaroscuro woodcut in Italian republic—used two blocks in black and gray on a beige newspaper.

In this allegory, not linked to a detail myth, Hercules applies his beast force in the service of art and knowledge. Pointing toward the archway, Apollo banishes the vice of Forehandedness from the Temple of the Muses. A personification of greed, Avarice carries a hoard of treasure in her arms as Hercules, a character of virtuous force, chases her out. Apollo sits next to the war goddess Athena, identified by her helmet, shield, and spear. Here she represents wisdom, and fulfills a civilizing role as patroness of the arts.

Artist biography

Ugo da Carpi

Born in Carpi (modern-day province of Modena) in ca. 1468/seventy, Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian chiaroscuro woodcut designer. Active in Venice from around 1509, he produced several woodcuts from small-scale book illustrations to awe-inspiring multi-block prints. Concerned with issues relating to actuality, Ugo usually signed his works, an uncommon do at that fourth dimension. In 1516, he petitioned the Venetian Senate for the privilege of having invented the technique of chiaroscuro woodcut. even so, it is probable that Ugo developed his method upon seeing earlier German language examples. In his prints, Ugo abandoned the traditional cross-hatching manner in favor of the employ of tone blocks. In 1516-18, Ugo moved to Rome and executed the majority of his chiaroscuro woodcuts afterward 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.

Balthasar Peruzzi

Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) was a painter, builder, and a prolific draftsman from Siena. He worked in Rome in contact with Raphael'south circle from 1503 until the sack of the city in 1527.

Inscriptions

Inscription

lower left, in block: ·BAL·SEN·

Inscription

lower right, in block: PERVGO

Inscription

verso, upper correct, in pen and brown ink: two--6

Inscription

lower right, in graphite: WO / 2119 / V[underlined] L4[?]

Inscription

lower right, pen and chocolate-brown ink: B[the rest of the word is illegible]

Inscription

scattered beyond sheet, graphite and pen and dark-brown ink: [illegible marks]

Provenance

?-1925

Ralph King [1855-1926], Cleveland Heights, OH

March 24, 1925

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Exhibition history

Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Fine art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).

Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).

Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).

Gods and Heroes: Aboriginal Legends in Renaissance Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-Dec 31, 2017).

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