The Dream of Saint Joseph
Pietro Testa
1635/37
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 37 × 30.1 cm (14 5/8 × 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 38.1 × 31.6 cm (15 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
150776
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...