Antonio Balestra

Venetian, 1666 - 1740

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Italian painter (1666-1740)

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Li Cinque Ordini d'Architettura Civile di Michel Sanmicheli non più veduti in luce, Ora publicati, ed esposti con quelli di Vitruvio, e d'altri cinque dal Conte Alessandro Pompei

Antonio Balestra, Conte Alessandro Pompei, Michele Sanmicheli · published 1735 · 1 vol: ill: etched frontispiece by Antonio Balestra, title page vignette by Balestra, 37 etchings (full-page, within text) by Balestra after GB, 7 head-pieces (3 by Alessandro Pompei, 2 by Balestra), 2 tail-pieces by Pompei ·  Accession ID  1983.49.98

Antonio Balestra, The Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Gregory the Great and Andrew, 1734/1735, pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.49.5

The Madonna and Child in Glory with Saints Gregory the Great and Andrew

Antonio Balestra · 1734/1735 · pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1972.49.5

Antonio Balestra, Venus as a Huntress Appearing to Aeneas and Achates, 1713, pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, traces of red chalk upper left, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.17.2

Venus as a Huntress Appearing to Aeneas and Achates

Antonio Balestra · 1713 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, traces of red chalk upper left ·  Accession ID  1982.17.2

Antonio Balestra, Virgin and Child on a Cloud, 1702, etching, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.33.1

Virgin and Child on a Cloud

Antonio Balestra · 1702 · etching ·  Accession ID  1972.33.1

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Peintures de la Sala Borgia, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Peintures de la Villa Lante, à Rome, de l'invention de Jules Romain; Peintures de la Ville Altoviti; Peintures du Cabinet de Jules II, au Vatican, de l'invention de Raphael; Raccolta di Alcuni Disegni...Guercino

Francesco Rosaspina, Pietro Santo Bartoli, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Tommaso Piroli · 1764 (actually first Paris edition 1800-1810) [Piranesi] and 1803 [Piroli] · 5 works bound in 1 vol: ill: 1st part: 12 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 2nd part: 16 plates (2 to a page), versos blank; 3rd part: 13 plates (1 full-page, 6-2 to a page, 3-3 to a page), versos blank; 4th part: 19 plates (7 full-page, 12-2 to apage), versos blank); 5th part: title page and 46 plates (35 full-page, 6 double-page, 2-2 to a page, 4-4 to a page), versos blank ·  Accession ID  1983.49.76

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Del Palazzo De' Cesari Opera Postuma Di Monsignor Francesco Bianchini Veronese

Marco Alvise Pitteri, Francesco Nicoletti, Girolamo Rossi II, Baldassare Gabbuggiani, Dionigi Valesio, Rocco Pozzi, Giuseppe Scolari, Vincenzo Franceschini, Francesco Bianchini · published 1738 · 1 vol: ill: title page by Arco Alvise Pitteri after Antonio Balestra, 2 plates on pages 20 and 21, and 20 etching and engravings (5 full-page, 5 double-page, 10 folding, versos blank), 4 by Girolamo Rossi, 2 by Dionigi Valesio, 1 after Stefano duPerac, 1 by Rocco Pozzi, 1 by Vincenzo Franceschini, 1 by Giuseppe Scolari after Francesco Nicoletti, 1 by Baldassare Gabbuggiani ·  Accession ID  1983.49.6

Pietro Rotari, Venus Appearing to Achilles, 1725, etching with engraving, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1982.17.3

Venus Appearing to Achilles

Pietro Rotari · 1725 · etching with engraving ·  Accession ID  1982.17.3

Pietro Rotari, Saint Jerome, 1725, engraving and etching on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1996.113.16

Saint Jerome

Pietro Rotari · 1725 · engraving and etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1996.113.16