Jacopo Bernardi

Jacopo Bernardi’s prints feel like overheard gossip frozen in time, tiny, precise, and full of secrets. He loved turning famous faces into something you could hold in your hand, like trading cards for adults. A 19th-century print of La Fornarina turns Raphael’s mistress into a puzzle: that knowing smile, the lace at her throat, all carved into paper so thin it’s almost rude to touch. His work belongs in Gallery Tiles because it turns museum walls into your living room.