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Details
- Date
- 1640-1642
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Dimensions
- 37.5 x 46.0 cm sheet (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1979
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 227.1979
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Pietro Testa
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About
To allow the Greek ships to continue the crossing to Troy, Agamemnon ordered the sacrifice to the goddess Diana of his daughter Iphigenia. Moved to pity, the goddess cast a cloud over the assembled company, substituting a deer and transporting Iphigenia to the land of the Taurians, far away from Greece, where she became a priestess.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Piety and Paganism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Jul 1991–29 Sep 1991
Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jun 1998–20 Sep 1998
Old Europe: Prints & drawings from the collection 1500-1800, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 03 Jun 2006–06 Aug 2006
European prints and drawings 1500-1900, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 30 Aug 2014–02 Nov 2014
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Nicholas Draffin, Piety and Paganism, Sydney, 1991, 11. no catalogue numbers
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Peter Raissis, Mantegna to Piranesi - Italian old master prints from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1998, 8. no catalogue numbers
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