Plate 1: A procession figures walking to the right carrying various objects
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/8 in. × 18 in. (16.2 × 45.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.911.1
Tags
ProcessionsMenWomen
About the Artist
Pietro Santi Bartoli|Polidoro da Caravaggio|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 ...