Ugo da Carpi (um 1480 - 1532), Coloured Woodcut 47,6 cm x 35,2
cm Weimar Art Collections Photo courtesy of Haus der Kunst,
Munich Chiaroscuro: Chiaroscuro Italian Coloured Woodcuts of the
Renaissance and the Baroque MUNICH • Haus der Kunst • Ongoing
|The exhibition Chiaroscuro - Italian Coloured Woodcuts of the
Renaissance and the Baroque originated in cooperation with the
Weimar Art Collections and the Casa di Goethe, Rome. It presents
an outstanding selection of Italian woodcuts of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries and further documents an important area of
collecting activity in Weimar around 1800: the Italian
chiaroscuro woodcut, also called clay-plate woodcut. All
exhibits are from the inventory of the graphics collection of
the Weimar art collections. | Italy was at the center of
interest of Weimar in Goethe's times. Goethe himself, who was
responsible for supervising the ducal art collections,
intensified the acquisition policy, which was continued into the
second half of the 19th century to such an ex