 His few surviving paintings (about twelve) include the first known example of "trompe l'oeil" since antiquity.His twenty-nine engravings and three very large woodcuts were also highly influential.His place and date of birth are unknown, but he was described as a Venetian by contemporaries, including Albrecht Dürer ("van Venedig geporn"), and as 'old and weak' in 1511, so dates of between 1450 and 1470 have been proposed.