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The martyrdom of Saint Angelo who in the upper left is being stabbed watched by horrified onlookers, from the 'Cabinet Crozat'

Pietro Testa|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

1729–64

The martyrdom of Saint Angelo who in the upper left is being stabbed watched by horrified onlookers, from the 'Cabinet Crozat' by Pietro Testa|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

Medium

Etching and aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut, printed in brown

Dimensions

plate: 16 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (41 x 25.7 cm) sheet: 21 5/16 x 15 3/8 in. (54.1 x 39 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of J. R. Watkins, 1942

Accession Number

42.16.54

About the Artist

Pietro Testa|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus · 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...

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