Giovanni Balestra

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Giovanni Balestra (1774–1842) was an Italian engraver.

He was born at Bassano. He 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 a: 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.

References

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). London: George Bell and Sons. p. 73.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 71665835 LCCN: nr97017594 ISNI: 0000 0000 6125 8428 BNF: cb14967834q

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Name	Balestra, Giovanni
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Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1774
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Date of death	1842
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