Pietro Testa e la Nemica Fortuna. Un Artista Filosofo (1612-1650) tra Lucca e Roma.
Palombi Editori
Firenze, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, June 7 - November 8, 2014.
Edited by Canevari A. and Fusconi G.
Pubblicazione monografica promossa dal Ministero per i Beni e delle Attività Culturali del Turismo, Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica.
Italian and English Text.
Roma, 2014; paperback, pp. 481, 350 b/w and col. ill., 350 b/w and col. plates, cm 24,5x30.
ISBN: 88-6060-542-3 - EAN13: 9788860605429
Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture),Graphic Arts (Prints, Drawings, Engravings, Miniatures),Monographs (Painting and Drawing)
Period: 1400-1800 (XV-XVIII) Renaissance,1800-1960 (XIX-XX) Modern Period
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Weight: 2.74 kg
Back in Rome, Testa began a treatise on painting, rejecting Baroque illusionism and the concept of copying nature like those "dirty and ridiculous apes of nature," the Dutch Italianates. He also transformed his imagery, replacing poetic mythologies with ancient history themes and employing a more severe, monumental style anticipating Neoclassicism.