#Antonio Balestra

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Antonio Balestra

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Venus, Mercury and Cupid

Artist: Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666–1740)

Date: 17th Century

Genre: Mythological Painting

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Antonio Balestra

Antonio Balestra was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. Born in Verona, he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice, where he worked for three years under Antonio Bellucci, then moved to Bolona and then to paint in Carlo Maratta’s workshop in Rome. In 1694 he won a prize from the Academia di San Luca. He later painted both in Verona and Venice; although his influence was stronger in the mainland.

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Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666-1740) Venus gives Hippomenes three golden apples

A painting depicting Mars and Venus, also attributed to Balestra, is held at the Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw, inventory no. 47099. The composition is mirror-inverted but has the same character as this painting.

Hippomenes, a son of Ares, had courted Atalante, who made every suitor compete against her - if he won, she took him to her husband, if he lost, Atalante killed him. Although Atalante wanted to change his mind because of his beauty, Hippomenes stuck to the plan and finally asked Venus for help, who gave him three golden apples. During the race, Hippomene's strength waned and Venus gestured for him to drop an apple. Atalante picked it up and thus lost valuable time - of course she had little objection to marrying the handsome young man.

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Venus, Mercury and Cupid

Artist: Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666–1740)

Date: 17th Century

Genre: Mythological Painting

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

In Roman mythology, Venus, Mercury, and Cupid are associated with love, desire, and the power of love's arrows:

Venus The goddess of love and sex, and a major deity in the Roman pantheon. She is often depicted as a blonde nymph in a seashell, and is sometimes accompanied by Cupids. Venus is the embodiment of spiritual, celestial love. However, she can also be flighty, passionate, impulsive, and jealous.

Mercury The winged messenger of the gods, and Cupid's teacher. He brings Cupid's wings and arrows to Venus.

Cupid The god of desire, and the son of Venus and Mercury. His name comes from the Latin word cupido, which means "love or desire". Cupid is often depicted as a winged infant carrying a bow and quiver of arrows. His arrows symbolize love's power, and his wounds inspire love or passion in his victims. Cupid is generally viewed as beneficent, but some literature portrays him as callous and careless.

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The Death of Abel (1701-1704) | Antonio Balestra

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Antonio Balestra - Abel's soul ascends to heaven, 18th century.

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Zephyrus, Flora and Cupid; and Venus, Mercury and Cupid - Antonio Balestra (detail)

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Venus, Mercury and Cupid

Artist: Antonio Balestra (Italian, 1666–1740)

Date: 17th Century

Genre: Mythological Painting

Media: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Antonio Balestra

Antonio Balestra was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. Born in Verona, he first apprenticed there with Giovanni Zeffio. By 1690 he moved to Venice, where he worked for three years under Antonio Bellucci, then moved to Bolona and then to paint in Carlo Maratta's workshop in Rome. In 1694 he won a prize from the Academia di San Luca. He later painted both in Verona and Venice; although his influence was stronger in the mainland.

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Zephyrus, Flora and Cupid; and Venus, Mercury and Cupid - Antonio Balestra (detail)

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Circle of Antonio Balestra - Fortitude and Prudence (.c1730s)

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On July 13th 1807 Henry Benedict Stuart died, Henry was the fourth and final Jacobite to publicly lay claim to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Born on 6th March, 1725, at the Palazzo Muti, Rome. The same day he was christened Henry Benedict Maria Clement Thomas Francis Xavier by Pope Benedict XII at the Pallazo Balestra.

Styled Duke of York from birth, Henry was an intelligent child and was reported to have written and spelled better than his brother "Bonnie" Prince Charlie. Henry Stuart was a good-looking young man, with the same dark eyes as his brother Charles, but lacked Charles' height. In common with his father, he was more introverted, cautious and certainly less high spirited than his exuberant older brother.

During the '45 he travelled to France to petition Louis XV for funds to support the uprising, historians have said he was humiliated in doing so. Henry was present to greet Charles in France on his return from Scotland, the brothers embraced each other warmly and at first seemed to continue in the close and affectionate relationship which had previously existed between them. They were soon to find that they no longer had much in common and Charles' supporters aggravated matters by complaining they felt that Henry not done enough to ensure that the French fleet sailed for England to support the rebellion. The sensitive Henry himself considered such criticism unfair as he had been appointed nominal commander of the French fleet but possessed no real authority.

After Charles's death in January 1788 the Papacy did not recognise Henry as the lawful ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland, but referred to him as the Cardinal Duke of York.

He spent his life in the Papal States and had a long career in the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, rising to become the Dean of the College of Cardinals and Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia and Velletri. At the time of his death he was (and still is) one of the longest serving Cardinals in the Church's history.

Henry became known by Jacobites, and within his personal entourage, as Henry IX of England, although publicly he referred to himself as Cardinal-Duke of York nuncupatus, he did however sign his will Henry R. In it he wrote he was to be succeeded in all his claimed rights by his friend and nearest blood-relative, Charles Emmanuel IV of Sardinia. But Charles never asserted nor renounced his Jacobite claims, nor have any of his successors to this day.

Henry Benedict, his brother, his father and his mother are buried in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. There is a monument to the Royal Stuarts designed by Antonio Canova in the basilica to their memory on one of the columns in the basilica, the crypt was paid for by George III, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen mother paid for restoration work to it during the middle of the 20th century.

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Antonio Balestra

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Pietro Rotari

Italian painter

Pietro Antonio Rotari was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in Saint Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court. His portraits, mostly of women, are renowned for being beautiful and realistic. 

Born: September 30, 1707, Verona, Italy

Died: August 31, 1762, Saint Petersburg, Russia Period: Baroque

Work

Baptiste Picq, Pietro Rotari, Young Woman with a Fan, early 1750's

Pietro Rotari (1707-1762) "A young woman holding a mask and a pomegranate" Oil on canvas Baroque & Girl with a Book, by Pietro Antonio Rotari, (18th century.

Portrait of a Woman Foundation Bemberg & A Young Woman with a Fan

A Sleeping Woman & A Young Woman with Blue Dress

He was initially a pupil of Antonio Balestra, but moved and lived in Venice from 1725 to 1727. He then joined the studio of Francesco Trevisani in Rome (1728–1732). Between 1731 and 1734, he worked with Francesco Solimena in Naples. He then returned then to Verona, where he started a studio. In 1750, he had moved to Vienna. In 1756, he was invited to Russia by the court of the Tsarina Elizabetta Petrovna. From there he moved to Dresden and to work with the court of Augustus III of Poland. He returned to St Petersburg to work with the court of Catherine II

He was much in demand as a portraitist, and painted royal families in Dresden and Saint Petersburg. He also painted the multi-figured altarpieces of the Four Martyrs (1745) for the church of the Ospedale di San Giacomo in Verona. He also painted an altarpiece of San Giorgio tempted to sacricifice to the Idols (1743) for the church of the same name in Reggio-Emilia, and an Annunciation (1738) for the main altar for the church of the Annunziata in Guastalla

Pietro Rotari - Wikipedia

Girl with a Book, by Pietro Antonio Rotari, (18th century.

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The Miracles of Saint Ignatius Loyola. By Antonio Balestra. 1721.

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Antonio Balestra - Juno and the Peacock.