Ærkeenglen Mikael
Pietro Testa
1611-1650
Medium
Sortkridt, pen, brunt blæk og brun lavering
Classification
Tegning
Department
Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling
Museum
SMK — National Gallery of Denmark
Credit
SMK — Statens Museum for Kunst
Accession Number
KKSgb5772
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Tegning
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...