Did he influence Dürer or Dürer him? On Jacopo de’ Barbari

In his 1547 manuscript account of the most important artists and craftsmen who had worked in Nuremberg over the previous hundred years, Johann Neudrffer briefly mentioned one Jacob, Walch genannt, Maler. He knew little about him: he had only seen two of his pictures, one of which he had forgotten about, the other a portrait; Hans von Kulmbach had been his pupil. A fuller picture only emerged in the 19th and 20th centuries as scholars brought together a series of prints and paintings, some s