Alexander the Great Rescued from the River Cydnus
Pietro Testa
ca. 1650
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
38 x 54 in. (96.5 x 137.2 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Eula M. Ganz, in memory of Paul H. Ganz, 1987
Accession Number
1987.75
Tags
SoldiersAlexander The GreatMale NudesRiversBathingHorses
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...