# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pietro-balestra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:58:50.108Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pietro-balestra"
name: "Pietro Balestra"
slug: "pietro-balestra"
description: "Pietro Balestra was an Italian sculptor of the late-Baroque period. He was born in Siena, and was best known for his work in marble in Dresden, including a Meleager slaying the Calydonian Boar; Venus and Cupid, and Boreas and the Rape of Orithyia."
tagline: "Italian sculptor (1672-1729)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Cardinal_Decio_Azzolino%2C_1667%2C_by_Pietro_Balestra_%28active_1700s%2C_died_after_1729%29._Nationalmuseum%2C_Stockholm%2C_Sweden.jpg/330px-Cardinal_Decio_Azzolino%2C_1667%2C_by_Pietro_Balestra_%28active_1700s%2C_died_after_1729%29._Nationalmuseum%2C_Stockholm%2C_Sweden.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1672"
deathDate: "1729"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.59
  momentum:             3.026315789473684
  historical:           5.003564
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Balestra_(Bildhauer)"
    title: "Pietro Balestra (Bildhauer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Balestra_(sculptor)"
    title: "Pietro Balestra (sculptor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Balestra"
    title: "Pietro Balestra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Balestra_(sculpteur)"
    title: "Pietro Balestra (sculpteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Balestra_(scultore)"
    title: "Pietro Balestra (scultore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3388085"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump