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...Fogg Art Museum/Sackler Art Museum...
...Fogg and Sackler Museums have combined efforts to produce the first retrospective exhibition of the Italian artist Pietro Testa's works in the United States. Testa was one of the leading printmakers and draftsmen of the 17th century...
...Wednesday morning at 11 a.m., five hours before study cards were due, the professor of Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," walked up to the podium in the Fogg's Norton Lecture Hall and confronted an overflow crowd...
...first time ever in America, the works of the often misunderstood Pietro Testa are available for viewing in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum; an additional satellite exhibit is on display in the Fogg Museum, both through March 19. Though Testa is perhaps the least familiar of 17th century Italian graphic artists, he has also been called "the only original and truly Italian etcher" of his time...
...while it is an impressive collection of the artist's works, its focus is not commercial attraction. In a time when etching seems to be enjoying a revival in the Boston area, with other etching exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts and the satellite exhibit at the Fogg, the Sackler Testa production is noteworthy for the artist's superior technical achievements and for his incorporation of the events of his tragic life into his works...