An exhibition of Italian woodcuts from the Renaissance in Los Angeles.

The exhibition The Chiaroscuro Woodcut in Renaissance Italy, curated by scholar Naoko Takahatake and organized through a collaboration between Lacma and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has opened at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It will be open to the public from June 3 to September 16, 2018. The exhibition showcases some important works made by Italian artists using woodcut, a printing technique that uses engraved wood, which originated around 1516: it consists of the superimposed printing of two or more blocks of wood engraved and soaked in inks of different colors so as to create tones and contrasts and give a three-dimensional effect to the print. Devised by Ugo da Carpi (and later used by engravers such as Antonio da Trento, Niccolò Vicentino, Nicolò Boldrini and Andrea Andreani) the technique involved some of the greatest exponents of Renaissance art, from Parmigianino to Raphael to Titian.

Pictured: Saturn, original drawing by Nicolò Vicentino (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

An exhibition of Italian woodcuts from the Renaissance in Los Angeles.

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