PIETRO SANTI BARTOLI'S ‘PITTURE ANTICHE MINIATE’: DRAWINGS OF ROMAN PAINTINGS AND MOSAICS IN PARIS, LONDON AND WINDSOR

Pietro Santi Bartoli was esteemed for his elegant ‘ancient pictures in miniature’, based on the records he made of new discoveries in Rome, but few of the collections made by his patrons survive intact. This paper reconstructs one such, by combining the contents of two sets of coloured drawings, one in London (RIBA Drawings Collection) and the other in Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) to produce a series of records that includes some little-known discoveries of the 1680s. The relationship between Bartoli's sketchy on-site records and the coloured ‘miniatures’ is examined via the ‘Vittoria album’ at Windsor, which contains many of his preparatory drawings.