The Garden of Venus who reclines in the centre before a term of Pan and surrounded by cupids, ca. 1631–37, Etching, Image: 13 1/2 x 16 5/16 in. (34.3 x 41.5 cm), Prints, Pietro Testa (Italian, Lucca 1612–1650 Rome), It was especially for his skill as a draftsman and printmaker that the rather tragic figure of Pietro Testa became known. Before his early death at the age of thirty-eight, he spent most of his career in Rome, where he worked in the studios of Domenichino (1581-1641) and Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) and associated with artists and scholars who, like him, were especially interested in the Classical tradition
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