Giuseppe Levati (1739–1828) was an Italian painter and designer of the late-

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and

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period. He was born at

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, near

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. After initially working as a decorator, he specialized as an architectural landscape painter, attracted especially the perspectives of Bárbaro and Giampietro Zanotti. In 1802 he was elected director of the school of perspective at

. He executed architectural subjects and landscapes (

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). He helped decorate the house of the Marquis Litta at Lainate; the residence of Count

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, the archducal palace at Milan, and the palace at

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. One of his pupils was

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References

* 1739 births 1828 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Painters from Milan Italian neoclassical painters Italian Baroque painters People from the Province of Monza e Brianza 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub