Domus Aurea
He moved to Rome in 1635 as a youth, there he studied painting under Jean Lemaire and Poussin, but abandoned it to devote himself entirely to engraving and as an antiquarian for Christina, Queen of Sweden. He engraved many Roman monuments, publishing in "Admiranda Romanorum Antiquitatum" (Rome, 1693). About 1660, he excavated the "Domus Aurea", of which he published drawings.