The martyrdom of Saint Angelo who in the upper left is being stabbed watched by horrified onlookers, from the 'Cabinet Crozat'
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 Harry G. Friedman
Accession Number
60.708(117)
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...