(b ?Florence, c. 1506; d Paris, 1565). Italian sculptor, stuccoist, painter, engraver and mosaicist, active in France. He is mentioned for the first time between 1537 and 1540 in the accounts of the château of Fontainebleau, working on mosaics with Jean Picard (Jean Le Roux, fl mid-16th century). Barbiere rose to prominence rapidly in the team of artists assembled by Francesco Primaticcio on the royal works at the château and worked also at Troyes, where he lived for periods during his career. It is not clear, however, if he went to Troyes as a young man and established his profession there before going on to Fontainebleau with other sculptors from Troyes, such as the Julyot family ( fl 16th century) and Nicolas Cordonnier, or whether he went initially to Fontainebleau in the footsteps of his fellow Florentines Rosso Fiorentino and Primaticcio and then went on to Troyes, a long-established centre of sculpture production, with craftsmen he had met at Fontainebleau (see TROYES, §2).

• Barbiere, Domenico del
  • Engraving, §II, 3(i)(e): Major exponents, c 1500–c 1600: Duvet and other French engravers
  • France, §III, 2: Painting and graphic arts, c 1450–c 1620
  • collaboration
    • Stucco and plasterwork, §III, 10(i)(b): Western world, 1400–1850: France
  • groups and movements
    • Fontainebleau school, §2(ii): First Fontainebleau school: Role of printmaking
  • works
    • Anatomical studies, §2(ii)(c): Renaissance anatomical illustration: France
    • Etching, §II, 1(iii): Origins: France