Ten hemelopneming van een heilige

About this artwork

…; from the dealer J.L. Reichlen, Lausanne, 500 CHF, with 49 other drawings, to the museum, 1946; transferred in 1948

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...