Judith Holding the Head of Holofernes
Jacopo de' Barbari
c. 1500
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 18.2 × 12 cm (7 3/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
86271
About the Artist
Jacopo de' Barbari · 1497–1516
Jacopo de' Barbari (c. 1460/70–before 1516) was an Italian painter, printmaker, and miniaturist of Venetian background whose career unfolded across the courts and workshops of northern Europe, making him one of the most important conduits between Italian Renaissance art and the northern artistic tradition in the years around 1500. Little is known of his training or his early decades; Alvise Vivari...