Allegorie op de benoeming van Marcantonio Franciotti tot bisschop van Lucca

About this artwork

verzamelaarsmerk, verso opzetvel, 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...