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| Pietro Antonio Pazzi Posthumous portrait of Pietro Testa mid-18th century etching, engraving à la poupée National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Study after the so-called Nike Balustrade (antique relief now in the Uffizi) commissioned for the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo ca. 1635 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Diana before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
"Around 1629 Testa moved from his native Tuscany to Rome, and remained there for most of his career. He first specialised in making copies after classical antiques and was employed in this capacity by Cassiano dal Pozzo and Vincenzo Giustiniani. He trained briefly under both Domenichino and Pietro da Cortona, and was much influenced by Poussin. He was a highly skilled draughtsman and one of the greatest etchers of his generation, but as a painter he met with little success. An ambitious artist with a liking for theory and complex imagery, it was probably his progressive disillusionment at his lack of recognition that drove him to commit suicide by drowning in Rome's River Tiber."
– curator's notes from the National Galleries of Scotland
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| Pietro Testa Landscape before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Garden of the Hesperides before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Allegorical figures before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa A Sacrifice before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Bacchanal before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Putti playing in front of Herms before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Massacre of the Innocents before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Massacre of the Innocents before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Mourning woman and dead baby before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Adonis before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro Testa Venus bringing arms to Aeneas before 1650 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |