1800s JACOPO DE BARBARI Engraving APOLLO AND DIANA Original DURAND Framed COA$874.00
1800s JACOPO DE BARBARI Engraving APOLLO AND DIANA Original DURAND Framed COA
$874.00
Artist: Jacopo de’ Barbari, (de’Barbari, de Barberi, de Barbari, Barbaro, Barberino, Barbarigo or Barberigo) (Italian, c. 1460/70 – before 1516).
Title: Apollo and Diana
Medium: Antique hand pulled copper plate engraving on laid paper after the 1502 original by master engraver Amand Durand (1831 – 1905).
Year: 1879
Reference: Bartsch VII
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Approximately 14 x 16 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
In this print Apollo is shown in his role as a solar deity, standing on top of a celestial sphere firing arrows that signify the rays of the sun. The image shows the moment when night, symbolized by Apollo’s sister Diana, goddess of the moon, gives way to day. Devoted to the hunt, the chaste Diana (the Greek Artemis) is accompanied by a deer. It was through engravings like this, with its idealized nude figures, that Barbari influenced artists throughout Europe, including the German Albrecht Dürer.
Jacopo de’ Barbari was a Venetian painter and engraver influenced by Antonello da Messina. Barbari probably painted the first signed and dated (1504) pure still life (a dead partridge, gauntlets, and arrow pinned against a wall). Until c. 1500 he remained in Venice. A large engraved panorama of the city is among the Venetian works attributed to him. An acquaintance of Albrecht Dürer, he moved to the north where he worked as a court painter in the German cities of Wittenberg, Nürnberg, and Frankfurt an der Oder and finally settled at the Dutch court. Like Dürer, who consulted him on technique, Barbari engraved on copper and made woodcuts.
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