An allegory in honor of the arrival of Cardinal Franciotti as Bishop of Lucca
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 15 7/8 x 11 15/16 in. (40.4 x 30.4 cm) sheet: 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (40.9 x 31.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.70.3(57)
About the Artist
Pietro Testa|Frans van den Wyngaerde · 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...