STORRS, CT.- The William Benton Museum of Art presents Old Master Drawings and Prints, on view through May 6, 2007. Old Master Drawings and Prints features a selection of fifteen Italian works dating from 1539 to 1690. Mythological tritons, the Greeks fighting the Trojans and Italian seaports are a few of the subjects included. Specific works on exhibit are a Tuscan landscape by Ercole Bazzicaluva (drawing, c.1630), the hermit Saint Jerome by Annibale Carracci (etching, 1590), and The Symposium by Pietro Testa (etching, 1648). Featured is a second Testa etching, recently acquired, entitled Sinorix Carried from the Temple of Artemis (1640).

By the end of the 17th century, dominance of the European art world had shifted to the French court and society, but, until then, Italy would remain the artistic center of Western Europe.