Giovanni Battista Balestra (1774-1842)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/120647
- Name (English)
- Giovanni Battista Balestra
- Short name
- Giovanni Balestra
- Year of birth
- 1774
- Year of death
- 1842
- Short Description
- "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." - (en.wikipedia.org 21.06.2020) - Entity Encoding
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Lateranbasilika, Rom
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Object information
Image: Stiftung Händelhaus, Halle - CC BY-NC-SA
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