About Giovanni Balestra
Lived 1774 – 1842 (aged 67–68). Giovanni Balestra was an engraver, painter, copper engraver and graphic artist.
Giovanni Balestra (1774–1842) was an Italian engraver.
He was born at Bassano del Grappa, and was a relative of Antonio Balestra. He studied under Antonio Suntach and attended the engraver's workshop of Count Giovanni Antonio Remondini in Bassano. In 1803, he moved to Rome. He engraved Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Fountain after Il Garofalo; The Penitent Magdalene after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo; Madonna del Rosario after Sassoferrato; and Aurora and Cephalus after Annibale Carracci. He also made engravings of the Roman works of Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorwaldsen.
He died in Rome in 1842.
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Italian painter (1774-1842)
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Giovanni Balestra was born in 1774 in Bassano del Grappa.
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Giovanni Balestra died in 1842 in Rome.
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Giovanni Balestra was an engraver, painter, copper engraver and graphic artist.
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