Allegory in Honor of the Arrival of Cardinal Franciotti as Bishop of Lucca
1637
Medium
etching with burnished tone on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 40.3 × 30.3 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.) sheet: 41 × 30.9 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2022.68.3
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...