Aanbidding door de koningen (linker deel)

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height 498 mm x width 200 mm

Art Historical Context

**Aanbidding door koningen (linker deel)** by Pietro Sante Bartoli invites visitors into the dramatic world of 17th-century Baroque art This etching, created between 1645 and 1700, captures left portion of the timeless biblical scene known as the Adoration of the Kings, or the Magi. Bartoli, an Italian engr active in Rome, specialized in reproductive prints that preserved and disseminated grand compositions from his era's masters, making sacred narratives accessible to a wider audience beyond grand churches and palaces. Measuring an impressive 498 mm in height by 200 mm in width, the work exe...

About the Artist

Pietro Sante Bartoli · 1615–1700

Pietro Santi Bartoli, born in Perugia in 1635, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Roman antiquarian revival of the late seventeenth century. Relocating to Rome as a youth, he initially pursued painting, studying under the French artist Jean Lemaire—known as "Le Petit Lemaire"—and later under the esteemed Nicolas Poussin, whose classical rigor profoundly shaped his early approach. Though traces of ...