TESTA Pietro, known as Lucchesino (Lucca 1617 † Rome 1650) - (The Academy of Painting, Allegory) "Intelligenza et Vso, Il Liceo della Pittura". c.1638. Etching. Signed with the monogram of the artist in the lower right corner on a stone on the ground. Catalogue number: Bartsch, n°34. Proof in a later edition at the address of G.G. de Rossi, on watermarked laid paper (Fleur de lys dans un cercle). A beautiful allegorical piece in which the artist has expressed the path that young people must take to reach the perfection of this art, and to bring together Theory and Practice, Use and Intelligence. 49.7 x 73.8 cm. Condition B (Fine margins left and right, small margins at the top and bottom, slight trace of old vertical median fold, some restorations...)