View of Venice [upper left block]
![View of Venice [upper left block] by Jacopo de' Barbari](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/view-of-venice-upper-left-block-nga-37050.webp)
Medium
woodcut on two sheets of laid paper pasted together
Dimensions
overall: 67.8 × 93 cm (26 11/16 × 36 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1950.1.14
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...