Carlo Naya

He also documented the restoration of Giotto's frescoes at the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua.

Naya was born in Tronzano di Vercelli in 1816 and studied law at the University of Pisa.

An inheritance allowed him to travel to major cities in Europe, Asia, and northern Africa.

He was advertising his services as portrait photographer in Istanbul in 1845,[1] and opened his studio in Venice in 1857.

In 1918, it was closed and publisher Osvaldo Böhm bought most of Naya's archive.