Sacrifice to Priapus, the Large Plate
Jacopo de' Barbari
1499/1501
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
22.9 × 16.5 cm (9 1/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4248
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...