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Antonio Balestra (1666-1740)

Aliases: Antonio (1666) Balestra

Professions: Painter; copperplate engraver

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    ANTONIO BALESTRA

    ANTONIO BALESTRA

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    ANTONIO BALESTRA VERONA 1666 - 1740

    ANTONIO BALESTRA VERONA 1666 - 1740

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    Antonio Balestra (Verona 1666-1740)

    Antonio Balestra (Verona 1666-1740)

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    ANTONIO BALESTRA

    ANTONIO BALESTRA

Antonio Balestra Biography

(b Verona, 12 Aug 1666; d Verona, 21 April 1740). Italian painter and printmaker. His altarpieces and history paintings, which unite late Baroque classicism with Venetian colour, brought new life to north Italian painting. The son of Lucia Boschetti and Francesco Balestra, a wealthy merchant, he studied literature, rhetoric and the humanities, but, after lessons in drawing and perspective with Giovanni Zeffis (d 1688) and one Monsignor Bianchini (1646–1724), he moved to Venice in 1687 and trained with Antonio Bellucci. In 1691 he transferred to Rome, where he studied with Carlo Maratti, whose art continued a classical tradition that can be traced back to Raphael, and where he also absorbed the work of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino. In 1694 Balestra’s large drawing of the Fall of the Giants (Rome, Gal. Accad. N. S Luca) won first prize in a competition at the Accademia di S Luca. In 1695 he returned to Verona, where he was acclaimed as the chief exponent in the Veneto of Maratti’s late Baroque classicism. His pictures of this period were mainly small religious works, such as the Agony in the Garden (London, priv. col., see 1978 exh. cat., fig. 136).

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  • - Antonio Balestra , Verona 1666 - 1740 The Adoration of the shepherds oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame , Antonio Balestra, Click for value View Details

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    - Antonio Balestra , Verona 1666 - 1740 The Adoration of the shepherds oil on canvas, in a carved and gilt wood frame

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    Attributed to Antonio Balestra (Verona 1666-1740)

  • BALESTRA, ANTONIO (circle, 1666-1740). Alexander, Antonio Balestra, Click for value View Details

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    BALESTRA, ANTONIO (circle, 1666-1740). Alexander

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