• Was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
• Brea was born into a family of coopers in Nice, and later moving to Liguria.
• One of his pupils was Teramo Piaggio.
• His earliest definite work is the Mercy between Saint Martino and Catherine of Alexandria, painted for the monastery of Cimiez, near Nice, in 1475.
• Other notable works by Brea can be found along all the coast from Monaco to Mentone, from Taggia to Imperia, and from Savona to Genoa, where he was active from 1483.
• In Liguria, Ludovico's siblings Peter and Antonio Brea also operated as painters, as did Antonio's son, Francisco Brea.
