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Ugo da Carpi

Diogenes

c. 1524–27
chiaroscuro woodcut (in four shades of green)

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In his Lives of the Artists (1550), Giorgio Vasari described Diogenes twice, praising it as Ugo da Carpi's most accomplished and beautiful print.

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