Antonio Balestra (1666–1740)

• 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 Bologna and then to paint in Carlo Maratta's workshop in Rome.

• In 1694, he won a prize from the Accademia di San Luca. 

• His pupils in Verona were Pietro Rotari and Giambettino Cignaroli.

• In Venice, other pupils or painters he influenced, included Mariotti, Giuseppe Nogari, Mattia Bortoloni and Angelo Trevisani.

• He painted for churches of Venice, Vicenza, Padua, Brescia, and Verona.

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