Heilige Hieronymus in de wildernis
Pietro Testa
ca. 1630 - ca. 1631
Medium
etching
Dimensions
306; 228
About this artwork
collector's mark: 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...