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Jacopo de’ Barbari
Italian painter
Quick Facts
- Jacopo also spelled:
- Iacopo
- Also known in the north as:
- Jakob Walch (“Jakob the Foreigner”)
- Born:
- 1440
- Died:
- 1516 (aged 76)
- Movement / Style:
- Venetian school
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 ...(100 of 108 words)