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Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.
Despite an apparent lack of any formal training, Luca Carlevarijs excelled as a Venetian view painter. Scholars considered him the first artist to have consciously emphasized the importance and grandeur of Venice by depicting it as a center of international activity.
Luca Carlevarijs pioneered the class of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Giovanni Antonio Canaletto and Francesco Guardi. He was also known as 'Luca Casanobrio' or 'Luca di Ca Zenobri', for his patronage of the latter family.
Luca Carlevarijs is rightly regarded as the first of the great Venetian vedutiste of the eighteenth century, and it was his success in securing a sustained clientèle for views of Venice in the opening decades of the century that set the pattern that the careers of Canaletto, Bellotto, Marieschi and Guardi were, in many respects, to follow.
Luca Carlevarijs was born in Udine, the son of a painter who died when he was a child. The young Carlevarijs moved to Venice in 1679 and there is scant information on his training and work before he reached the age of forty in 1703 when he published Le Fabriche, e Vedute di Venetia.
Luca Carlevarijs (1663–1730) Paintings Collection. (b Udine, 20 Jan. 1663; d Venice, 12 Feb. 1730). Italian painter, active mainly in Venice.
His interest in the possibilities of Venetian topography had, no doubt, been quickened by his experience of the work of Vanvitelli, and the publication of his Le fabbriche e vedute di Venezia poste in prospettiva in 1703 marked his emergence in the field.
