Luca Carlevarijs

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice.

Here he was influenced by the Dutch painter Caspar van Wittel (often called Vanvitelli), who was a long-term resident of Rome.

Carlevarijs then started to create vedute of Venice, which are among the earliest Baroque depictions of the city.

He completed over a hundred etchings of views in Venice, which give an exact representation of the principal places in that city.

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.