Luca Carlevarijs Italian, 1663-1730

Born in Udine in 1663, after the early death of his parents, in 1679, Carlevarijs and his older sister moved to Venice. He was introduced at the Zenobio Palace, whose noble family became his patrons. From then, his life and activities were exclusively linked to Venice. 

From a young age, he was already described as an accomplished painter of seaports and villages. The second decade of the eighteenth century marked his full artistic maturity.  

He is still considered the father of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting as, although he was not the first to specialise in this genre, his interest in mathematics is evident in the construction of scenarios with rigorous perspectives. 

His paintings and his series of 104 engravings of Venetian views, published in 1703, represented an essential starting point for Canaletto and Guardi. 

In 1728, the artist was struck by a progressive form of paralysis which, over the course of two years, led to his death in 1730.