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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Goddess surrounded by standing figures (copy after Roman mural) ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Winged female figure from Trajan's Column (copy after Roman relief) ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
Pietro Santi Bartoli - painter, engraver and etcher, born Villa Bartola, near Perugia, 1635, worked and died Rome, 1700. Prominent in antiquarian circles. Bartoli transferred early in life to Rome, where he became a pupil of Pierre Lemaire, known as 'Le petit Lemaire' or 'Lemaire-Poussin' (c. 1512-88), and of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). After Poussin's death collaborated frequently with Bellori, until he died in 1696, making the drawings and plates of antiquarian objects that were accompanied by Bellori's texts.
He married a daughter of G.F. Grimaldi (the engraver Farjat, qv, married another). Although he had trained as a painter, he specialised as a draughtsman, excelling as a copyist after the Antique. In this latter capacity he joined the household of Cardinal Camillo Massimi: two volumes of drawings that he made while in this employment are preserved, one in the University Library, Glasgow, and the other in the College Library, Eton.
Bartoli is best known as an engraver of antique subjects. His several volumes of such prints, famous in their day and sometimes running into a number of different editions . . . most were issued with texts written by the famous antiquarian and connoisseur Giovan Pietro Bellori.
– curatorial notes from the British Museum
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Women holding casket, ointment jar, musical instrument (copy after Roman mural) ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Adults with children (copy after Roman mural) ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Maritime mythological scene (copy after Roman mural) ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Copy after Roman mural ornament ca. 1660-90 watercolor Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Copy after Roman ceiling decoration ca. 1660-90 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Venus surrounded by other deities (copy after Roman tomb painting, with notes) 1689 drawing Royal Collection, Windsor |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Jupiter on Eagle (copy after antique relief) ca. 1655-70 etching British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Four men with a pig on a ball (copy after antique relief) ca. 1655-70 engraving British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli after Giulio Romano Battle of Gods and Giants (copy after fresco at Palazzo del Te, Mantua) ca. 1680 etching British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli after Giulio Romano Giants crushed by boulders (copy of fresco at Palazzo del Te, Mantua) ca. 1680 etching British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli after Giulio Romano Copies of frescoes at Palazzo del Te, Mantua ca. 1680 etching (two prints on one plate) British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli after Giulio Romano St Gregory the Great writing at the dictation of the Holy Spirit (visible as a dove on his shoulder) before 1677 engraving British Museum |
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| Pietro Santi Bartoli Copy of antique figure of Fame ca. 1650-1700 drawing British Museum |