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| Jacopo de' Barbari Satyr playing the Lira da Braccio, with Wife & Child ca. 1501-03 engraving British Museum |
Jacopo de'Barbari (ca. 1445-1516) became a successful engraver in Venice, producing monumental maps as well as mythological and religious subjects. Renaissance antiquarianism animated Jacopo's figures, sourced more perhaps from literature than from visual models. These beings seem immune to the relaxed and graceful deportment that already prevailed in the work of other up-market European print-makers.
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Victory reclining amid Triumphs ca. 1500-03 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Victory & Fame ca. 1503-04 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Apollo & Diana ca. 1503-04 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
Toward the end of his life Jacopo de'Barbari traveled to courts in Germany and the Low Countries, where his "idiosyncratic face and figure types" exercised a genuine (though brief) influence on northern European art, or so we are told. The floating caduceus – visible on most of these sheets – was his signature-mark.
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Two Philosophers reading ca. 1508-10 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Guardian Angel ca. 1500 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Two Fauns ca. 1501-03 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Sacrifice to Priapus ca. 1501-03 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1498 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Holy Family ca. 1500 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Venus, or, Vanity ca. 1503-04 engraving Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari St Sebastian ca. 1510-12 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Three Prisoners ca. 1501-03 engraving British Museum |
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| Jacopo de' Barbari Triton and Nereid ca. 1495-1510 engraving British Museum |