Pietro Testa, 1650 - Alexander the Great Rescued from the River Cydnus - fine art print

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During his campaign against Darius, Alexander halted at Tarsus to bathe in the Cydnus: "But hardly had he entered it when his limbs began to stiffen with a sudden chill, then he lost his color, and the vital warmth left almost his entire body. His attendants . . . carried him almost unconscious to his tent" (Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander III, V:1–4). To the left is the aged river god. To the right smoke rises from the fire set in Tarsus by Darius's retreating troops. The picture was painted shortly before Testa drowned in the Tiber, apparently a suicide.

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In 1650 the Italian artist Pietro Testa created this classic art piece of art with the title "Alexander the Great Rescued from the River Cydnus". The 370 year old original of the piece of art measures the size: 38 x 54 in (96,5 x 137,2 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the technique for the artwork. The work of art can be viewed in in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eula M. Ganz, in memory of Paul H. Ganz, 1987 (licensed: public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Gift of Eula M. Ganz, in memory of Paul H. Ganz, 1987. Besides, the alignment is in landscape format and has an image ratio of 1.4 : 1, which means that the length is 40% longer than the width. Pietro Testa was a painter, printmaker, whose style was primarily Baroque. The painter lived for a total of 38 years - born in 1612 in Lucca, Lucca province, Tuscany, Italy and deceased in the year 1650.

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