Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (1663 – 1730)

• Was an Italian painter and engraver.

• He was working mainly in Venice.

• He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice.

• His works included cityscapes with a topological interest as well as imaginary landscapes with ruins.
• He completed over a hundred etchings of views in Venice, which give an exact representation of the principal places in that city.
• The painters Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Antonio Visentini are said to have been influenced by his work or even have been his pupils.
• His paintings and his set of 104 etched views of Venice, which were published in 1703, were the foundation on which Canaletto and Guardi built.
• Johan Richter collaborated with him.

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