Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right, 1520?30, Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in grey-green ink, Image: 18 11/16 x 13 5/8 in. (47. 5 x 34. 6 cm), Prints, Ugo da Carpi (Italian, Carpi ca. 1480?1532 Bologna), After Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503?1540 Casalmaggiore), Ugo da Carpi was the first Italian artist to experiment with a multiblock woodcut technique known as chiaroscuro. The method requires a different block for each shade; the blocks are inked and printed one over the other to create the composition