Jacopo de’ Barbari

Italian painter

Also known as: Iacopo de’ Barbari

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Jacopo de' Barbari: Saint Jerome — Jacopo de' Barbari: *Saint JeromeSaint Jerome*, engraving by Jacopo de' Barbari, 1501/1504; in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Jacopo de’ Barbari (born 1440—died 1516) was a Venetian painter and engraver influenced by Antonello da Messina. Barbari probably painted the first signed and dated (1504) pure still life (a dead partridge, gauntlets, and arrow pinned against a wall). Until c. 1500, he remained in Venice. A large engraved panorama of the city is among the Venetian works attributed to him. An acquaintance of Albrecht Dürer, he moved to the north where he worked as a court painter in the German cities of Wittenberg, Nürnberg, and Frankfurt an der Oder and finally settled at the Dutch court. Like Dürer, who consulted him on technique, Barbari engraved on copper and made woodcuts.

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