Master I. B.

German engraver. One of the most important of the Nuremberg Little Masters, he produced engravings, monogrammed I.B., that show close familiarity with the graphic works of Dürer and the Behams. He is distinct from the Lombard painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Palumba, known as Master I.B. with the Bird from his signature on eleven woodcuts of the 1500s