Martelaarschap van Erasmus
Pietro Testa
c. 1630 - c. 1631
Medium
etching
Dimensions
193; 284
About this artwork
height 284 mm x width 193 mm
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...