Jacopo de' Barbari, the first major Italian…

Jacopo de' Barbari, the first major Italian artist to travel to Germany and the Netherlands, had worked in Germany for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I from 1500, then in various places for Frederick the Wise of Saxony in 1503–5.

During the years Jacopo de' Barbari spends in Germany, he and Albrect Dürer influence one another, as is evident in Jacopo's engravings, such as St. Catherine and Judith with the Head of Holofernes, both produced around 1501-03, and Satyr's Family, produced in 1503-04, and his painting in Still Life with Partridge and Iron Gauntlet, executed in 1504.

The very early still life of a partridge, gauntlets, and crossbow bolt (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) is often called the first small scale trompe l'oeil painting since antiquity; it may well have been the cover or reverse of a portrait (however a fragmentary panel by another Venetian, Vittorio Carpaccio, has a trompe l'oeil letter-rack of about 1490 on the reverse).