Jacopo de’Barbari

Artist	Jacopo de’Barbari
Birth	1440
Birthplace	Venice, Italy
Death	1480
Place of Death	Italy
Gender	Male
Nationality	Italy
Movement	Early Renaissance
Media	Painter
	Venetian painter, copper engraver and wood carver. He met Dürer in Venice in 1494-96. After 1500 he worked in Germany (Nuremberg, Wittenberg, Frankfurt/Oder) using the name Jakob Walch. He became court painter for the Emperor Maximilian in Nuremberg, and – from 1503-04 – the Elector Frederick III (the Wise). From 1510 he became court painter of the Governor of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria in Brussels. He painted mainly religious and mythological pictures. He transmitted the elements of Italian Renaissance to Germany.