Hercules Driving Envy from the Temple of the Muses
1523
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1523
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see Hercules in a temple, club raised, chasing a hunched figure out the door. This print is one of the first Italian examples of *chiaroscuro*—a way of layering light and dark blocks to look like a drawing. Ugo da Carpi carved two woodblocks, one for black lines and one for gray shadows, then printed them on beige paper. The result feels like a sketch, not a flat print. To see how the trick works, look up *chiaroscuro*.
