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Jacopo de’ Barbari

Italian painter
Also known as: Iacopo de’ Barbari
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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...

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