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View of Venice [lower left block]

Jacopo de' Barbari

1500

ink

From the collection of National Gallery of Art

Renaissance Renaissance Cityscape

Dominant colour

View of Venice [lower left block] is a 1500 ink by Jacopo de' Barbari, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.

Who painted this?: Jacopo de' Barbari
When & what style?: 1500 · Renaissance
Where can I see it?: National Gallery of Art

About this work

This image shows a detailed black-and-white drawing of a city by the water. You can see ships in the harbor, buildings packed closely together, and a busy coastline. The paper has a textured look, like it was made by hand. This is a map-style picture of Venice, drawn in the early 1500s. The artist used a method called woodcut, where they carved lines into wood and pressed ink into them. Look up woodcut to see how this printing technique worked.