Barbari, Jacopo de' (1440s–c. 1516)

Italian painter and engraver. In 1500 he went to Nuremberg in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. After 1504 he worked for Archduke Frederick III of Saxony and Joachim I of Brandenburg under the name of Jacob Walch. He became court painter to the regent of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria, in 1510.

His studies of human proportions turned Albrecht Dürer towards this research, though Barbari seems to have followed Dürer and Lucas Cranach in his later style. Barbari's exquisite still life of a dead bird and pieces of armour (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) is considered one of the earliest still lifes. He also engraved a well-known map of Venice.