The Guardian Angel: an angel at left placing his hand on the head of a sleeping seated man
Jacopo de' Barbari
ca. 1500–1503
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 8 5/8 x 6 1/16 in. (21.9 x 15.4 cm) trimmed to plate
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1921
Accession Number
21.8.2
Tags
MenAngels
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...