Vertrek van de verloren zoon
Pietro Testa
c. 1621 - 1650
Medium
etching
Dimensions
205; 297
About this artwork
De verloren zoon stapt op zijn paard en verlaat zijn ouderlijk huis. Links drie mannen en rechts op de achtergrond drie figuren met twee dromedarissen.
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...