Achilles ondergedompeld in het water van de Styx
Pietro Testa
1648
Medium
etching
Dimensions
270; 416
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 240
About the Artist
Pietro Testa · 1612–1650
Pietro Testa was born in Lucca in 1612 and, in accordance with the conventions of Italian artistic training, made his way to Rome while still young. There he studied under two of the leading painters of the early seventeenth century: Domenichino, from whom he absorbed a taste for classical restraint and narrative clarity, and Pietro da Cortona, whose more exuberant Baroque manner offered a contras...