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Pietro Rotari, printmaker
Italian, 1707 - 1762
Saint Sebastian, after Antonio Balestra, 1725
Etching
13.4 x 17.5 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1988.1.241

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after, Antonio Balestra

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Artist Biography: Born Verona 4 October 1707, Studied drawing under Robert Van-Auden-Aerd, and then under Antonio Balestra. Studied in Venice, then in Rome with F. Trevisani, and Naples to work at the shop of Solimene. Back in Verona ca. 1734, but left in 1754 for Vienna, and then Dresden at the invitation of August III of Poland. Worked in St. Petersburg for the Empress Elizabeth, and died there in 31 August 1762. ~~Reference: DeVesme, Alexandre. Le Peintre-graveur italien. Milan: 1905.~Lazzaro, Claudia. Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1981.~

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