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Giovanni Cesare Testa, printmaker
Italian, 1630 - 1655
Achilles on the back of the Centaur Chiron, 17th century
Etching
27.8 x 41.2 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1986.1.363

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after, Pietro Testa ( il Lucchesino)~publisher, Giovanni Jacopo Rossi (Giovanni Iacomo de Rubeis)

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Artist Biography: Born Rome 1630, died there in 1655. Nephew of Pietro Testa. See: P. Bellini. "Giovanni Cesare Testa". Print Collector 32, 1976. p. 26. See also: Ann Sutherland Harris and Carla Lord. "Pietro Testa and Parnassus". Burlington Magazine. CXXII 1970, pp. 15-20.

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