Jacopo de' Barbari
Italian, 1460/70-before July 1516
The Guardian Angel
INV-7504
Jacopo de' Barbari
Italian, 1460/70-before July 1516c. 1509
The Guardian Angel
Jacopo de' Barbari Italian, 1460/70-before July 1516 →engravingprint
Date
c. 1509
Medium
Engraving on paper
Dimensions
22.5 × 15.9 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
Jacopo de' Barbari was one of the most important yet enigmatic Venetian printmakers of the late fifteenth century. Noted for his travel to Germany and the Netherlands, and for his friendship with Albrecht Dürer, Jacopo served as a conduit for stylistic and technical influences between North and South. This unusual subject, which probably relates to a religious text, was executed in the chiaroscuro engraving technique of modeling with light and shade introduced by Dürer's Passion series of 1507-12.
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