Allegorie ter ere van paus Innocentius X
Pietro Testa
ca. 1645
Medium
etching
Dimensions
499; 400
About this artwork
height 400 mm x width 499 mm
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...