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Santi Bartoli (also Sante or Santo; 1635 – November 7, 1700) was an Italian engraver, draftsman and painter.
He moved to Rome as a young man in 1635, where he studied painting under Jean Lemaire and Poussin, but left it behind to devote himself entirely to engraving and as an antique dealer for Christina, Queen of Sweden. He engraved many Roman monuments, which he published in Admiranda Romanorum Antiquitatum (Rome, 1693). Around 1660 he dug up the Domus Aurea, of which he published drawings.
As a draftsman, 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 mosaics (Glasgow, U. Lib.). He later lived in Paris, where he was introduced to the court of Louis XIV. In 1699 he produced the ‘Rossi Romanae Magnitudinis Monumenta, a later edition of the Antiquae Urbis Splendor from 1637 by Giacomo Lauro with the engraver Domenico. Bartoli modified 138 of Lauro’s original plates and engraved 16 new ones.
He died in Rome. His plates are mainly etched.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Santi_Bartoli