God the Father in Glory
Pietro Testa
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
Dimensions
28.8 × 55 cm (11 3/8 × 21 11/16 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
95920
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...