Admiranda romananum antiquitatum ac veteris sculpturae vestigia
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1905, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1991.1073.86
Tags
HorsesSoldiersMen
About the Artist
Pietro Santi Bartoli|Giovanni Pietro Bellori|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 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 ...