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Pietro Testa, 1612-1650
Works of Pietro Testa, an Italian High Baroque artist in Rome.
The Ideal of Painting
The Description for this book, The Ideal of Painting: Pietro Testa's Dusseldorf Notebook, will be forthcoming.
Pietro Testa's «Alexander the Great Saved from the Rive». Ediz. a Colori
Stefan Albl's project focused on preparing a book on one of Pietro Testa?s last paintings before committing suicide. This painting was inspired by Quintus Curtius Rufus History of Alexander the Great and depicts a rarely represented episode in the life of the great commander: in the middle of a hot summer day, Alexander, covered in dust and sweat, decided to swim in the river Cydnus. Unaware of the fact that the water was cold, Alexander?s limbs went rigid and all the warmth of life was drained from his body. This study examined Testa?s reading of Curtius Rufus and his interpretation in painting. Classical art-historical analytical methods were combined with more philosophical and medical issues.
Pietro Testa, 1612-1650
Pietro Testa was much admired by his contemporaries for his exquisite draughtsmanship and has been called the most original and the only truly Italian etcher of his time. This book is both a catalogue raisonné of the artist's prints and a survey of the range and development of his drawing style. Elizabeth Cropper's introduction examines Testa's influences and critical reputation since the 17th century, and the three supporting essays place his art in specific contemporary theoretical, intellectual and economic contexts.
The Monthly Magazine
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Poussin and the Poetics of Painting
This book examines how Poussin cultivated a poetics of painting from the literary culture of his own time, and especially through his response to the work of Torquato Tasso. Tasso's poetic discourses were the most important source for Poussin's theory of painting. Poussin does not merely illustrate Tasso's verse, but cultivates pictorial means to refashion the poet's metaphors of desire. Offering new interpretations of these works, this book also investigates Poussin's larger literary culture and how this context illuminates the artist's response to contemporary poetic texts, especially in his mythological paintings.
