Jacopo de' Barbari

Jacopo de' Barbari was an Italian painter, printmaker and miniaturist with a highly individual style, who lived from about 1460 or 1470 to before 1516. He moved from Venice to Germany in 1500, thus becoming the first Italian Renaissance artist of stature to work in Northern Europe. His few surviving paintings, about twelve in number, include the first known example of trompe-l'oeil since antiquity. His twenty-nine engravings and three very large woodcuts were also highly influential, and he is known under a number of variant names including de Barbari, de Barberi, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo and Barberigo.