Affectus exprimit/ arcum meretur/ Parnaso triumphat

About this artwork

Getekende voorstudies worden bewaard in het Musée du Louvre te Parijs (inv. nr. 1921 recto) en in het Städelsches Kunstinstitut te Frankfurt (inv. nr. 4405). De originele drukplaat wordt bewaard in de Calcografia Nazionale te Rome (inv. nr. 994).

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...