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Pietro del Po
1620 - 1692
Medium
etching
Dimensions
375; 514
About this artwork
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About the Artist
Pietro del Po · 1610–1692
Pietro del Pò, born in Palermo in 1616 to Francesco Jacopo and Francesca lo Po, emerged as a prominent Baroque painter, engraver, and draughtsman, though he achieved greatest distinction through his etchings. Displaying prodigious talent from childhood, he began drawing and painting under the guidance of an unknown master in Palermo. By the 1640s, he studied with Giovanni Lanfranco between 1644 an...