Portrait of a Man

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This painting dates to about 1505-06, when Jacopo was working in Wittenberg for the dukes of Saxony. The portrait reflects the strong influence of Dürer, but its monochrome colour scheme - dark gray cap and coat against a dark background - is unlike anything in Italy or Germany at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

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About the Artist

Jacopo de' Barbari

1445 – 1516

Venetian painter, copper engraver and wood carver. He met Dürer in Venice in 1494-96. After 1500 he worked in Germany (Nuremberg, Wittenberg, Frankfurt/Oder) using the name Jakob Walch. He became court painter for the Emperor Maximilian in Nuremberg, and - from 1503-04 - the Elector Frederick III (the Wise). From 1510 he became court painter of the Governor of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria in Brussels. He painted mainly religious and mythological pictures and signed nearly all his works with a caduceus. Barbari's idiosyncratic facial and figural types influenced contemporary masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans von Kulmbach and Jan Gossart.

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