BARBARI, JACOPO DE'

born 1440 died 1516 Jacopo also spelled Iacopo, also known in the north as Jakob Walch (Jacob the Foreigner) Venetian painter and engraver who 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 Drer, he moved to the north where he worked as a court painter in the German cities of Wittenberg, Nrnberg, and Frankfurt an der Oder and finally settled at the Dutch court. Like Drer, who consulted him on technique, Barbari engraved on copper and made woodcuts.