Art, literature & history
The Guardian Angel
c. 1509
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 22.5 × 15.9 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1951.114
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacopo de' Barbari. The Guardian Angel. Jacopo de' Barbari; Art Institute of Chicago; Clarence Buckingham Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Guardian Angel — Jacopo de' Barbari. c. 1509.
Medium: Engraving on paper. Dimensions: 22.5 × 15.9 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Jacopo de' Barbari was one of the most important yet enigmatic Venetian printmakers of the late fifteenth century. Noted for his travel to Germany and the Netherlands, and for his friendship with Albrecht Dürer, Jacopo served as a conduit for stylistic and technical influences between North and South. This unusual subject, which probably relates to a religious text, was executed in the chiaroscuro engraving technique of modeling with light and shade introduced by Dürer's Passion series of 1507-12.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.