Pietro Santi Bartoli (also ''Sante'' or ''Santo''; 1635 – 7 November 1700) was an Italian engraver, draughtsman,

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Life and career

Bartoli was born at

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. He moved to Rome in 1635 as a youth, there he studied painting under Jean Lemaire and

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, but abandoned it to devote himself entirely to engraving and as an antiquarian for

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. He engraved many

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monuments, publishing in ''Admiranda Romanorum Antiquitatum'' (Rome, 1693). About 1660, he excavated the ''

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'', of which he published drawings. As a draughtsman, Bartoli reproduced the ''Codice Virgiliano'' (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, Cod. Vat. 3867) in 55 plates (1677; Rome, Calcografia N.), commissioned by Cardinal Camillo Massimo. For Massimo, he also did drawings of ancient Roman paintings and

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s (Glasgow, U. Lib.). Later, he lived in Paris, where he was introduced at the court of

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. In 1699, with the engraver Domenico de' Rossi, he produced ''Romanae Magnitudinis Monumenta'', a later edition of the 1637 ''Antiquae Urbis Splendor'' by Giacomo Lauro. Bartoli adapted 138 of Lauro's original plates and engraved 16 new ones. He died in

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. His plates are chiefly etched.

Selected works

Among his works are: *''Admiranda Romanarum Antiquitatum ac veteris Sculptura vestigia''; 81 plates. *''Romanae magnitudinis Monumenta''; 138 plates. *''Veteres arcus Augustorum triumphis insignes''; 52 plates. *''Colonna di Marco Aurelio'' (

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); 78 plates. *''Colonna traiana eretta dal Senato, e popolo romano all'imperatore Traiano'' ( Trajan's Column) with Alfonso Ciacconi; (1673) 128 plates. *''Pitture antiche di Roma, e del sepolcro de' Nasoni''; (1702) 123 plates. *''The Nozze Aldobrandini''; (Roman 1st century Aldobrandini Wedding fresco) two sheets. *''Le pitture antiche delle grotto di Roma''; assisted by F. Bartoli; 94 plates, 1680 & 1706. *''Veterum lucernae sepulcrales, collectae ex cavernis et specubus subterraneis'', with

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1691 & 1704; 119 plates. *''Scenes from the life of St. Peter''; after

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. *''Subjects from ''

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's Bible'' ''; 42 plates. *''Grottesques; after

''; inscribed ''Parerya atque ornamenta in Vaticano''; 43 plates. *''Antiquissimi Virgiliani Codicis fragmenta et picturae, ex Biblioteca Vaticano''; *''Birth of the Virgin''; after Albani. *''Virgin and Child in the Clouds''; after

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. *''Coriolanus and his Family'' and ''San Carlo Borromeo led by an Angel''; after

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. *''Daniel in the Lions' Den''; after

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. *''St. John preaching''; after Mola. *''Adoration of the Magi''; after

; in three sheets. *''Jupiter nursed by Amalthea''; ''Jupiter hurling thunderbolts at Giants''; ''Hylas carried off by Nymphs''; ''Sophonisba before Masinissa''; ''Continence of Scipio''; after

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. *''St. Stephen''. *''St. Bernard enchaining the Devil''; Theatre erected in St. Peter's for a Canonization; *''The sepulchral Monument of Pope Urban VIII''.

References

* * * Mirco Modolo, Dal clivus Scauri al vicus Capitis Africae: gli affreschi della vigna Guglielmina a Roma nei disegni dei Bartoli, in Bollettino d'Arte, 8, Ottobre-dicembre 2010, pp. 1–20. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bartoli, Pietro Santi 1635 births 1700 deaths Italian draughtsmen Italian engravers 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Perugia Italian antiquarians 17th-century antiquarians