Jacopo de Barbari Man Drawing a lute with the monogram of the artist from the Manual of Measure-ment
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Jacopo de Barbari
active in Nuremberg 1500-1515/16 Related Paintings of Jacopo de Barbari :. | Victory and Fame | Portrait of Heinrich | Still-Life with Partridge and Iron Gloves | Man Drawing a lute with the monogram of the artist from the Manual of Measure-ment | Triton and Nereid | Related Artists: DOSSI, Dosso Italian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1542
Although responsive to a wide range of outside influences, the most important of which were probably those of Giorgione in Venice and Raphael in Rome, he was an artist of great originality with a strong feeling for effects of light and colour. Landscape plays a prominent and highly expressive role in his work. He was employed, as were also the poets Matteomaria Boiardo (?1441-94) and Ludovico Ariosto, at the court of Ferrara, which was internationally renowned for its culture, especially its musical life and collections of art: one of his best-known works is an illustration of a magical scene from Ariosto's poetry, Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio Genoa 1639-Rome 1709 Heywood Hardy British
1843-1933