Jongeman arriveert op de Parnassus langs de weg van de Deugd

About this artwork

Allegorische voorstelling met een jongeman die op de Parnassus aankomt na over de weg van de Deugd te hebben gelopen. Op de Parnassus verschillende mythologische figuren en dieren. Opdracht in het Italiaans in ondermarge.

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...